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Turning an island to a ghetto

Saturday, 17 June 2017, 08:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

The result of this election has prompted many to question who the real Nationalist Party followers are and what are their traits?  Undeniably, and one that most frustrates the Panama gang...

The election aftermath

Friday, 16 June 2017, 09:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Salvu Mallia

The people have confirmed the Labour Party in government for the next five years, the party that in 2013 promised a new way of doing politics but ended up doing worse than their predecessors, Salvu...

The new normal is a Prime Minister who lies through his back teeth

Thursday, 15 June 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I watched the rule-of-law-in-Malta debate in the European Parliament yesterday, and I blushed for Malta. When did it become normal for us to have a prime minister who lies through the back teeth...

Transport

Thursday, 15 June 2017, 07:42 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

There can hardly be any doubtthat transport has become the major challenge that the nation faces. The question arises: what’s the best way to tackle it? On the one hand, there’s the dismal...

Social Wellbeing is a right – A view from a faculty

Wednesday, 14 June 2017, 07:52 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The finery of our Faculty is that it allows us to link up, to share, to immerse ourselves in the narratives of pain, of those who lie at the bottom of the heap.  This is a Faculty that...

Where there’s a will there’s a way!

Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 08:27 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

The Forza Nazzjonali, made up of the Nationalist Party, ably led by the honest and principled gentleman Dr Simon Busuttil, and the newly formed Democratic Party led by the vivacious Dr Marlene...

PN leader – Marlene? Why not Briguglio?

Monday, 12 June 2017, 11:01 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

It’s more of a provocation than a suggestion. But it is one way of showing how the Nationalist Party is at its lowest ebb in history, even lower than the post-2013 election. What happened...

Values

Monday, 12 June 2017, 07:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The manner by which during the last week, PN leaders... perhaps with the exception of Dr Mario Demarco... deployed the word “values”, simply added to their woes. Whoever heard them, could...

The others

Monday, 29 September 2014, 07:32 Last update: about 13 years ago Marlene Farrugia

It is not an easy time to be a mother. Shuffling out of the house.  Slowly. Painfully. Heavy heart, clouded mind. Choking back a deluge of unshed tears. Mourning words unsaid and...

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