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And the winner is...

Monday, 15 May 2017, 07:48 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

Naturally, the question that dominates the thinking of one and all during an election campaign is: who’s going to be the winner? In today’s race, my conviction is that the Labour...

The battle for the south

Monday, 15 May 2017, 07:46 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

As was to be expected, the electoral districts of the South ended up in the forefront of the local political debate in this electoral campaign. The signs were already there before, not only because of...

Muscat has lost control

Sunday, 14 May 2017, 11:06 Last update: about 9 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Something strange has happened over the past couple of weeks: Joseph Muscat has lost control. He has lost control of the government, and it has become increasingly clear that he is rapidly losing...

The third half

Sunday, 14 May 2017, 10:30 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

The vast majority of Malta is still binary: black/white, blue/red, Labour/PN. Ours/theirs. We reason in Manicheistic hues – the saved v the damned. You have to be on one side and against the...

Ghost towns in the Maltese islands

Sunday, 14 May 2017, 09:55 Last update: about 9 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The last Census, carried out in 2011 – with results published in late 2014 – revealed that in the Maltese islands only 68.2 per cent of residential property is regularly occupied. The rest...

Why are the polls grey?

Saturday, 13 May 2017, 10:23 Last update: about 9 years ago Rachel Borg

Compare and contrast the way that clear cases of corruption, tax avoidance, financial crimes and so many more unethical situations, are simply in the character of the family of the Labour party whilst...

On the good side of history

Friday, 12 May 2017, 13:24 Last update: about 9 years ago Salvu Mallia

Salvu Mallia says today that he does not want to be remembered to have been on the wrong side of history. In his vlog today, Mallia says that the choice is there for everyone to take....

Labour's dirty tricks cupboard: IVF

Friday, 12 May 2017, 07:38 Last update: about 9 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Another day, yet another lie in Joseph Muscat’s negative campaign. This time they are spreading the word that a government led by Simon Busuttil would stop the IVF service offered at Mater...

If they could, they’d turn Malta into Turkey

Thursday, 11 May 2017, 11:44 Last update: about 9 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

And quite frankly, we’re getting there rapidly. The gang at the top are fighting for their survival, using a mass of trolls, paid or unpaid, a large army of party apparatchiks and ‘persons...

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