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The new normal is a Prime Minister who lies through his back teeth

Thursday, 15 June 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I watched the rule-of-law-in-Malta debate in the European Parliament yesterday, and I blushed for Malta. When did it become normal for us to have a prime minister who lies through the back teeth...

Transport

Thursday, 15 June 2017, 07:42 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

There can hardly be any doubtthat transport has become the major challenge that the nation faces. The question arises: what’s the best way to tackle it? On the one hand, there’s the dismal...

Social Wellbeing is a right – A view from a faculty

Wednesday, 14 June 2017, 07:52 Last update: about 9 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The finery of our Faculty is that it allows us to link up, to share, to immerse ourselves in the narratives of pain, of those who lie at the bottom of the heap.  This is a Faculty that...

Where there’s a will there’s a way!

Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 08:27 Last update: about 9 years ago Gejtu Vella

The Forza Nazzjonali, made up of the Nationalist Party, ably led by the honest and principled gentleman Dr Simon Busuttil, and the newly formed Democratic Party led by the vivacious Dr Marlene...

PN leader – Marlene? Why not Briguglio?

Monday, 12 June 2017, 11:01 Last update: about 9 years ago Stephen Calleja

It’s more of a provocation than a suggestion. But it is one way of showing how the Nationalist Party is at its lowest ebb in history, even lower than the post-2013 election. What happened...

Values

Monday, 12 June 2017, 07:40 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

The manner by which during the last week, PN leaders... perhaps with the exception of Dr Mario Demarco... deployed the word “values”, simply added to their woes. Whoever heard them, could...

Politics of exclusion and the PN

Monday, 12 June 2017, 07:37 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

I read with great interest the interview given by Dr Mario de Marco to the Times of Malta about his future political plans and the way forward for the PN. De Marco completely excluded any interest in...

Sackcloth and ashes

Sunday, 11 June 2017, 10:30 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

These are sackcloth and ashes days for many - who had hoped for a different election result and who, like me, foretold a very different result which cruelly turned out to be a mirage. How could...

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