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Impressing the uncouth

Sunday, 4 August 2019, 10:10 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

He has tried to convince Labourites that he is the New Mintoff, or a reincarnation of him: a little psychological ploy that has so far paid handsome dividends.  Had he been a woman, it would not...

The Planning Authority and its ‘reputation’

Sunday, 4 August 2019, 10:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

It is quite hilarious to discover that the Planning Authority is worried about possible damage to its reputation! This is news because, to date, the general impression that most of us have is that the...

The day I boxed Muhammad Ali: and the day after

Sunday, 4 August 2019, 09:30 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

Imagine I once had a boxing bout with Muhammad Ali, whom oldsters like me also knew as Cassius Clay. He’d have pulverised me. On a scale of 1 to 100, puny silly me would have lost by 100. And...

The other revolt

Sunday, 4 August 2019, 09:16 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

They will probably pooh-pooh the whole thing, but if I were the government I would be worried about last Sunday’s pro-trees protest in Attard. Apart from festa band marches, nothing but...

Check the expiry date

Saturday, 3 August 2019, 09:15 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

A while ago we thought Malta had joined the rest of the world when we got the Divorce Act up and running and then we hit mega heights with all the civil rights in the LGBT community.  You could...

Jason’s brew is bad

Friday, 2 August 2019, 09:09 Last update: about 8 years ago Owen Bonnici

“Whether he likes it or not, the plaintiff (Jason Azzopardi) must carry the political responsibility for that which took place under his watch.” This week Mr. Justice Anthony Ellul...

What Brexit?

Thursday, 1 August 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

There can no longer be any doubt that the Brexit issue has now reached a very dangerous cliff edge. On their part, the “Europeans” are tied to the position that they will not change...

SPED: Four years on

Tuesday, 30 July 2019, 08:41 Last update: about 8 years ago Tara Cassar

In July 2015 Malta’s Strategic Plan for Environment and Development [SPED] was published. The SPED was to replace the Structure Plan that had been the adopted overarching guiding policy on...

Nostalgia

Monday, 29 July 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

For me, it was quite moving to watch recently on the website of a local paper a short video of Sliema in the mid-fifties. Most of all it shows has disappeared completely. Yet I realized how well I...

A decade of decadence

Sunday, 28 July 2019, 10:40 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I am not a psychologist, and do not pretend to be one. But, simply out of empathy and common sense, I can understand how he must be feeling now. After the international fiasco – even though he...

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