Back to the sordid normal
Thursday, 18 June 2020, 06:40
Last update: about 7 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
Will Cardona now be investigated? That’s one of the real tests of whether we have a truly new normal or not. It is hardly the only test, however. It didn’t take long. All it needed...
Les carrottes sont cuites
Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 06:55
Last update: about 7 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
A couple of weeks ago I saw the 2015 movie, The Walk, a biographical film directed by Robert Zemeckis and penned by Browne and Zemeckis himself. The film narrates the true story of French...
Resilience in the face of adversity
Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 07:12
Last update: about 7 years ago
Mark Josef Rapa
Two years and eight months ago, investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally murdered. We have since seen a civil movement attempting to restore good governance. Some battles were won,...
The banks
Monday, 15 June 2020, 07:09
Last update: about 7 years ago
Alfred Sant
A controversy flared up these last few weeks about European banks. It revolved around the point that banks are getting the rules under which they operate made more flexible so that they can offer...
Tabloid truths
Sunday, 14 June 2020, 10:50
Last update: about 7 years ago
Charles Flores
I have to admit I have always loved the genuine tabloids and actually spent a good number of years of my own splashing huge typeface for frontpage headlines in my newspaper days. There really is...
The Parliamentary Opposition
Sunday, 14 June 2020, 10:20
Last update: about 7 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The fact that government has been forced by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe to loosen its stranglehold on the Commissioner of Police appointment process is a positive democratic...
Sleeping with the enemy
Sunday, 14 June 2020, 09:21
Last update: about 7 years ago
Victor Calleja
Oh, glorious no! Another dig at the dear, charming and democratically elected leader of the PN. I have been told that writing about Adrian Delia, who is also the leader of the opposition, is...
A Covid death
Sunday, 14 June 2020, 08:22
Last update: about 7 years ago
Noel Grima
As I was writing my column last week, my family was shocked by the news that a close family friend had been diagnosed with Covid and was in a bad state in a UK hospital. This person had a lung...
Pizza Capricciosa
Saturday, 13 June 2020, 07:26
Last update: about 7 years ago
Rachel Borg
First we were told to go swimming. Now we have been told to go and get our tummies full, have a night on the town and end the evening with a sweet pillow to lay our heads on. What more...