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Record of a used car salesman

Friday, 31 October 2014, 08:41 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Sales is an art. To perform well you need to be trustworthy, assertive and optimistic. If you are not successful, one of these three key elements must be missing. Take Joseph Muscat, the...

Chinese sweat-shop slaves in Malta

Thursday, 30 October 2014, 08:06 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I really cannot understand why it took a big front page story in the Nationalist Party's Sunday newspaper, Il-Mument, a reader's comment which I uploaded as a post on my website, and a statement...

To name or not to name

Wednesday, 29 October 2014, 19:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

The Malta Independent has chosen to publish all details, including the name of a priest who has been accused by various women of improper sexual behaviour. Most of these women were vulnerable persons...

IdeaMalta from a 'whacko' party

Monday, 27 October 2014, 14:41 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

In the past days, the Nationalist Party organized a national convention on the theme IdeaMalta. Perhaps, it would have been better had it been termed IdeaPN, because the first thing that the...

Simon Busuttil needs to bring the laces behind the ball!

Monday, 27 October 2014, 10:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Following the discourteous exit of Lawrence Gonzi, not only from the reigns of the country but also from those of the party Leadership, somehow everyone 'knew' that the next in line would be Dr Simon...

Roadmap on digital rendition

Monday, 27 October 2014, 07:59 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

We live in strange times and bizarre things keep happening all around us near and far. And in times of such unprecedented uncertainty, people tend to either ignore things and suppress any grey matter...

Culture of entitlement

Sunday, 26 October 2014, 10:51 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

Few people realise that what they are getting for free is not free at all. That someone else is paying for it. When we speak of free education, free health care and a wide array of social...

Deflecting attention

Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 09:11 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

One third into this legislature, the Labour government can still do no wrong for many of those who voted for it. With an Opposition that struggled to regroup and is still finding its feet after the...

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