22 months
Friday, 16 January 2015, 08:20
Last update: about 13 years ago
Stephen Calleja
Joseph Muscat has been in office as Prime Minister for 22 months. It is the same number of months that his mentor and predecessor Alfred Sant spent in total as head of government in what was the...
Two kinds of leader
Friday, 16 January 2015, 07:51
Last update: about 13 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
As we approach the two-year mark of this legislature, we are beginning to see clear differences emerge between Joseph Muscat and Simon Busuttil. Naturally, some differences have long been...
‘You are free to offend others but not to offend me’
Thursday, 15 January 2015, 08:20
Last update: about 13 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
A couple of people asked me why I wasn’t at the St Julian’s demonstration for Charlie Hebdo. The primary reason is that I was running a fever and unable to leave the house. But I...
Half-baked once again
Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 07:59
Last update: about 13 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
A segment of our political class needs to get its act in order. Enough playing around. We need to see them walk the talk and not tap-dance politics, especially when the issue at hand is so...
A successful terrorist attack
Tuesday, 13 January 2015, 08:57
Last update: about 13 years ago
Simon Mercieca
Speaking about a successful terrorist attack in Paris may sound as a misnomer after last Sunday's grand march in Paris. Talking of a successful terrorist attack may appear as a public insult after 17...
The remuneration package for 'office' holders
Tuesday, 13 January 2015, 07:59
Last update: about 13 years ago
Gejtu Vella
The ministers’ remuneration package in the previous legislature was grossly mishandled and sternly criticised. Dr Joseph Muscat, then Leader of the Opposition, used the issue to gain more wind...
ScapeGod
Monday, 12 January 2015, 08:29
Last update: about 13 years ago
Marlene Farrugia
My world is very small. It's very small because for most of my life I did not ' have a room of one's own'. No room, no space. So, at this time last week I had never heard of...
The real danger is inside us
Sunday, 11 January 2015, 11:04
Last update: about 13 years ago
Noel Grima
There was a time, a century ago, when a single assassination, in Sarajevo, unleashed the First World War. The Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, this week, can unleash even more mayhem. In fact, we...
Bang, bang – je suis une tourterelle
Sunday, 11 January 2015, 11:01
Last update: about 13 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
That's turtle dove in French, should Joseph Muscat wish to tweet about it. So the prime minister is going to vote in favour of shooting birds in spring. But then he never said he was an...