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New economy, traditional economy and collapse

Sunday, 20 January 2019, 10:40 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

'Best in Europe', 'Envy of the World' ... grandiloquent slogans intended to beguile the masses and bypass the thinking classes who can clearly see through the sham....

Infrastructure Malta is missing the real alternative

Sunday, 20 January 2019, 10:02 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The studies forming part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on the Central Link project dealing with the road infrastructure between Mrieħel and Attard has just been published. Public...

If for nothing else do it for the kids

Sunday, 20 January 2019, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

The idea of God - any god - has always frightened me. Is he really there? Are we just his playthings? Is he - or she or it or they - just a fairy-tale we fabricated to make our life easier and more...

Everybody wants to rule the (PN) world

Tuesday, 15 January 2019, 09:15 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

All of a sudden all of us - Labourites, Nationalists, so-called neutrals - have become experts on how to best resolve the raging crisis within the Opposition. There are those who do it simply to...

Joseph, the two Matthews, and the migrants

Monday, 14 January 2019, 08:55 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

This week, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi chastised Matteo Salvini, Italy's current Deputy Prime Minister, over the 49-migrant crisis, taunting him that he is not a leader while Joseph...

Anesthetised accountability

Sunday, 13 January 2019, 11:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Earlier this week, the Planning and Environment Commissioner at the Ombudsman's office held that it is nobody's business as to whether or not the Planning Authority's Board members attend Board...

A black parable for the ship called Malta

Sunday, 13 January 2019, 10:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

Adrift. Sailing on in terrible conditions and circumstances. A Prime Minister who talks of sordid legalistic precedents and a whole population which, deprived of any moral compass, hardly...

Division seems to be the PN’s DNA

Sunday, 13 January 2019, 09:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

It's open warfare, it is reported, over at the Stamperija. Committees are being ordered by text or phone messages to come up with a statement affirming total trust in Adrian Delia, with most...

Not in my Name

Saturday, 12 January 2019, 09:29 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

Beyond the hype and the hysteria following the predicament of leader of the Opposition, Dr Adrian Delia, in regard to allegations of domestic abuse, we are faced with a stark and painful...

An eventful 2018

Friday, 28 December 2018, 09:49 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

Looking back at the past twelve months, my immediate thought is that we have managed to accomplish a packed agenda. The result of a group of people working as a team and with the common good in mind....

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