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Terror threats: The right to know

Thursday, 5 February 2015, 14:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

Malta is not mentioned many times in the international media, and when it is it always attracts our attention. It is more so when the news featuring our country involves our national security,...

‘I don’t like that other boy, Miss’

Thursday, 5 February 2015, 07:59 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The newspapers have reported that when Joseph Muscat met Angela Merkel yesterday in Berlin, informally, she asked him whether he had had a good relationship with his predecessor. Merkel’s was...

Managing by crisis or administering by focus?

Wednesday, 4 February 2015, 07:56 Last update: about 13 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Our latest controversy is on the new, now discarded, Monti stalls that were intended to host bargain purchases in the form of jeans (‘tlieta lira’), panties tat-tigra, sexy push-up and...

Bras, boxers and Parliament

Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 08:33 Last update: about 13 years ago Stephen Calleja

Joseph Muscat seems to be enjoying himself as the prime ruler of this little country of ours. He has the best position anyone wanting to have it his own way all the time can hope to hold. We have now...

Different considerations and interpretations

Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 08:18 Last update: about 13 years ago Gejtu Vella

Lately, I received a one liner e-mail. To protect the identity of the services contractor and the senior public officer, their names are not being disclosed. Hereunder, I am reproducing the e-mail in...

Rhetoric?

Monday, 2 February 2015, 09:49 Last update: about 13 years ago Marlene Farrugia

I am writing this piece right after the Prime Minister's magnificent concluding speech. I must confess that I am still overawed and positively impressed. Whoever is compiling the content and...

When a bus shelter becomes home

Monday, 2 February 2015, 09:46 Last update: about 13 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Naturally in my media role I do get people regularly coming in contact on human situations which I try to follow the best way possible and refer accordingly to the competent authorities.  I feel...

Michelle Obama passes the hemlock

Monday, 2 February 2015, 08:33 Last update: about 13 years ago Simon Mercieca

As rightly noted by a number of bloggers to my previous article, the recent death of the King of Saudi Arabia exposed the West’s hypocrisy on a number of issues and perhaps what has happened in...

In the warp and woof

Sunday, 1 February 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

Engulfed, as our communal lives frequently are, in the many controversies that rule our national life, we soon become deadened by the noise and the conflicting screams of those who try and push us...

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