Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency
Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 09:09
Last update: about 10 years ago
Gejtu Vella
Big building contractors and businessmen were getting too close to the Labour Party, former PL deputy leader Dr Anġlu Farrugia revealed in an interview after he was unceremoniously forced to...
Mario de Marco and Adrian Hillman
Monday, 21 March 2016, 10:24
Last update: about 10 years ago
Simon Mercieca
To state, as the Allied News editors did, that Adrian Hillman did not influence the editorial line cannot be taken seriously. The American journalist and author, Mark Twain, would define such...
Privacy
Monday, 21 March 2016, 08:19
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
A security measure by which for some time, European security forces can store full information about the air travel of all passengers in Europe remains stalled. The data is considered extremely useful...
Poolside with a sleaze-ball
Sunday, 20 March 2016, 11:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Oops, sorry: I meant to write ‘beach-ball’ but something went awry with my fingers when I looked at that picture of the Minister for the Economy taking a break from bar-hopping to call a...
Spin will not derail the issue
Sunday, 20 March 2016, 10:36
Last update: about 10 years ago
Noel Grima
The government’s awesome spin machine has been hard at work this week trying to bury or at least divert attention from the Konrad Mizzi Panama company. It pulled out all the stops in an...
Time warp politics
Sunday, 20 March 2016, 10:08
Last update: about 10 years ago
Charles Flores
The more agitated our politicians become over trust funds, properties and other riches very few of us can aspire to, the stronger the feeling that politics in this blob of land have encased themselves...
Blowing raspberries
Saturday, 19 March 2016, 08:35
Last update: about 10 years ago
Rachel Borg
With the passing of days and weeks it is becoming apparent that all we are going to get is blowing of raspberries in the Panamagate cases and other major topics. This is quite normal for...
Up close and personal
Friday, 18 March 2016, 11:06
Last update: about 10 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
A survey is merely a snapshot of one moment in time. Taken on a particular day, it simply reflects people’s views on the main issues affecting them at that point. Last Sunday’s survey...
Toni Abela
Friday, 18 March 2016, 08:21
Last update: about 10 years ago
Simon Mercieca
Toni Abela told journalists that if he got an unfavourable reply, he would withdraw his candidature to the European Court of Auditors (ECA). Yet, I don’t know why, Abela felt the need to make...
European Parliament tells Muscat: Dispose of your waste elsewhere
Thursday, 17 March 2016, 11:02
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Many of us watched Toni Abela’s question-and-answer session before the European Parliament’s Budgetary Commission the day before yesterday. We were in various stages of cringing...