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The budget tightrope exercise

Sunday, 16 November 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

Understandably, we all tend to look at the annual budget speech from our personal perspective: whether we will be better-off or worse-off after it, what we will pay in taxes, direct or indirect, what...

Whether the report is false or not, Scerri should go

Sunday, 16 November 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The newspaper coverage of whether the report lodged against Silvio Scerri, for conspiracy to murder the man for whom the mother of his children left him, is true or false tends to miss the essential...

The important role of the Opposition

Sunday, 16 November 2014, 10:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alison Bezzina

Last week I read with interest Roselyn Borg's commentary on Facebook. Besides being a friend, Roselyn is also one of the brave new candidates for the Nationalist Party. Her commentary started off...

Where to draw the line (2)

Sunday, 16 November 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alfred Mifsud

Where do you draw the line between the arguments of core and periphery eurozone countries about how best to restore the economy to normal growth and avoid the dangers of a lost decade and a perilous...

Making ends meet

Saturday, 15 November 2014, 08:34 Last update: about 13 years ago Rachel Borg

Echoes of the ton-ta’ zejt budgets of the 80’s are around us.  The trumpets are sounding and the carpet is being rolled out for the big announcements as people tune in to hear about...

Mintoff and the Spice Girls

Friday, 14 November 2014, 08:06 Last update: about 13 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Was anyone surprised, the other day, when Joseph Muscat said that Dom Mintoff should be appreciated for his objectives and not for how he went about things? That's another way of saying that the ends...

Liberal and progressive doesn’t mean lower standards

Thursday, 13 November 2014, 07:54 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Events of the past few weeks - or should we say those of the past 20 months? - have been a salutary lesson as to why politicians and other holders of high office should stick to better and stricter...

Public transport: a deeper mess

Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 15:28 Last update: about 13 years ago Stephen Calleja

I am lucky because I do not have to drive to go to the office. I consider this as a great advantage over my colleagues. I see them arrive at work flustered, angry and irritated after having to endure...

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