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The true patriots are the ones that protest

Sunday, 19 November 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

Just over 30 days have passed since Malta’s voice against corruptions, sleaze, nepotism, and absolute ridiculousness was brutally assassinated. In any normal country, the wheels of justice would...

What happens in Valletta, stays in Valletta

Saturday, 18 November 2017, 08:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

Something entrenched, right deep within the Maltese psyche, is that only what takes place indoors, from the front door inwards, matters.  Anything else outside the home is detached from value and...

For the record

Friday, 17 November 2017, 08:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Alex Muscat

The American University of Malta is moving ahead, according to plan, and abiding to the contract signed with Government. In recent days there has been a...

Partisan politics

Thursday, 16 November 2017, 07:55 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Political conduct remains partisan no matter where it’s undertaken. Partisanship changes shape according to contingencies and situations. That is what happened this week at the European...

Faces, young people and the (usual) moral panic

Wednesday, 15 November 2017, 08:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Letting Go One of the most rewarding moments in my Deanship is that instant when you are sitting ‘on the boards’ watching the faces of the graduates immensely satisfied that they have...

If you don't listen, someone else will

Tuesday, 14 November 2017, 08:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

While preparing to pen this piece I came across the following quote which is attributed to André Paul Guillaume Gide.  “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But...

Financial services

Monday, 13 November 2017, 08:09 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Many moons ago, the PN government wished to develop financial services as a sector of economic activity in Malta. I was among the sceptics fearing that such a development would transform Malta into a...

Spying on the PN? A retrospective from the 1930s

Monday, 13 November 2017, 08:07 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

The fact that the Nationalist Party has a problem with the chief of the police force is not new in the party’s history. Nor is there anything new in the fact that the Nationalist Party is...

The victims’ story

Sunday, 12 November 2017, 09:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

This is a story that has not been told in the turbulent weeks after Daphne Caruana Galizia's horrific murder, except in parts. It is the story of one of Daphne's victims, the people she targeted...

Parties are made of people, and it’s those you have to look at

Thursday, 9 October 2014, 08:15 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Martin Scicluna, in his column in The Times, yesterday attempted to justify the dissonance between his pre-electoral advice to his readers to vote Labour, and his dismay a couple of weeks back at the...

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