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Should Manuel Delia’s ghosts silence him?

Sunday, 27 January 2019, 12:08 Last update: about 9 years ago Victor Calleja

There are many stories which feature ghosts. Whether we believe in them or not,they always seem to have an effect on us. They come back to haunt us and shake us out of our comfort zones. Manuel...

New economy, traditional economy and collapse

Sunday, 20 January 2019, 10:40 Last update: about 9 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 9 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...

Leaving people in the dark

Sunday, 20 January 2019, 09:30 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

I don't usually watch Xarabank but I made an exception this week and watched the one featuring Adrian Delia....

If for nothing else do it for the kids

Sunday, 20 January 2019, 09:00 Last update: about 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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...

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