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What the hack?

Saturday, 4 January 2020, 09:49 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

Chris Fearne’s inane comments about RIPN, once, twice over, have only served to radicalise the opinion that democracy in the form of an elected government to serve all the people has no chance...

Winner takes all

Thursday, 2 January 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

When voting, time after time, the Maltese people decided that they would only choose between two parties. If in future democratically they do decide differently... say for having three to four...

Accountability

Monday, 30 December 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

How shall accountability in Malta be established on a serious basis? This is one of the major challenges that the new Prime Minister will have to face. Without undermining the foundations on...

The Last Days

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 11:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

When Joseph Muscat announced he would be resigning (not out of a sense of right and wrong, but because his back was against the wall), I immediately formed the intention of writing a "trilogy"....

New political era beckons?

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:45 Last update: about 8 years ago Charles Flores

Well, we have been asking this same question since way back in the very early Seventies, when Dom Mintoff’s Labour Party finally made it back to power after the tragic events of the previous...

Labour is morally and politically bankrupt

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:30 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Joseph Muscat and his Labour Party are morally and politically bankrupt. The responsibility for the current state of affairs rests primarily on Joseph Muscat’s shoulder as Prime Minister and...

The Christmas message that could have been

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

In the 15-minute sermon Bishop Grech read out, he spoke about the open wounds of society and the bandages that cover them. Christ then treats these injuries with his love. It is a beautiful allegory,...

A decade of shit

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 09:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

This is the last Sunday of the year 2019. A new decade descends on us and we are ending the current decade with a horrific taste in our mouth: blood, spattered and left to flow, is the symbol that...

Fake serenity, in your face

Sunday, 29 December 2019, 08:30 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

When last February a video surfaced showing a rather disheveled Michelle Muscat prancing about with a champagne bottle in her hand while her husband jumped around like a reveler in a ‘ marċ...

Make change happen

Saturday, 28 December 2019, 09:54 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

Many things are still shrouded in secrecy, hidden from the light.  The truth, though, has a life and a force of its own, which more often than not, will emerge and become known.  As we...

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