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Notes from a sink-pit of corruption

Thursday, 24 March 2016, 10:18 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Prime Minister declared three days of national mourning for the death of a former Archbishop of Malta, and promptly jetted off for his Easter holidays, saying that he would miss the formal funeral...

Friends of friends

Thursday, 24 March 2016, 06:52 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Jeremy Boissevain was the first to explain how to a substantial extent, affairs are conducted in Malta according to a friends-of-friends system, with "friends" working together to help each other...

Konrad’s hysterics

Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 09:37 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

They might not be burning down printing presses, or preventing newspapers from choosing the name they would like for their publication. But the attacks on the independent media under this government...

Throwing one’s hat in the ring

Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 08:03 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I believe that what we are experiencing in our political scenario at this point in time is close to unprecedented.  After the virtual walkover of the Nationalist Party in the last general...

Conspiracy theories

Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 12:59 Last update: about 11 years ago Mario de Marco

I refer to Simon Mercieca’s opinion piece entitled Mario de Marco and Adrian Hillman which appeared in the Malta Independent’s edition of 21 March 2016. Mr Mercieca is free to comment...

Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency

Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 09:09 Last update: about 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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...

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