Covering collectively toxic decisions
Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 11:28
Last update: about 10 years ago
Gejtu Vella
During this legislature, many expected that it would be plain sailing. The promised bearings were clearly identified and abundantly endorsed by a captivated electorate, prepared to break free from...
Anġlu’s daughter and her companion in misfortune
Monday, 8 February 2016, 10:19
Last update: about 10 years ago
Simon Mercieca
A few weeks ago, I wrote a very strong article against the choice of Simone Vella Lenicker, the daughter of the incumbent MEPA chairman, to lead the PN’s Environment Convention. I received all...
Outside input
Monday, 8 February 2016, 07:53
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
The latest Malta report from the International Monetary Fund raised a point that escaped much attention. Input from immigrant workers, mostly coming frm the European Union, was significant in the way...
The hijack
Sunday, 7 February 2016, 11:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
It should have been obvious at the outset – before, that is, the general election – that Konrad Mizzi and Joseph Muscat are a team. They are a team not just in the political sense, but...
Pro-business takes a dive
Saturday, 6 February 2016, 09:31
Last update: about 10 years ago
Rachel Borg
Knowing what you have to do to sustain a thriving economy and doing it are two different things. One the one hand you need to be inclusive and very sensitive to reality and potential, to nurture...
Look! Another rabbit out of the hat
Friday, 5 February 2016, 15:53
Last update: about 10 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
The week following Michael Falzon’s appearance on Xarabank has brought frenzy to the Castille cauldron in which political strategy simmers and boils. The NAO report was already a huge blow...
What a mess
Friday, 5 February 2016, 09:43
Last update: about 10 years ago
Stephen Calleja
If it’s not a scandal involving property dealings, then it’s a questionable appointment. This government is in the news for the wrong reasons every day. Just when you think that there...
Mafia and two politicians
Friday, 5 February 2016, 07:54
Last update: about 10 years ago
Simon Mercieca
Last week the Gaffarena scandal took a new twist when Dr Simon Busuttil labelled it ‘Mafia from Castille’, and assessed that the NAO's report is ‘a Mafia Story’. Labour...
Notes from a Prickly Pear Republic
Thursday, 4 February 2016, 11:35
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
The government has continued with its practice of appointing cronies to public office and calling it feminism and ‘equality’ because they are women. The latest two are Go plc’s...
On being saintly
Thursday, 4 February 2016, 07:45
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
Having spent quite a number of years in the political trenches attacking the incredibly bad governance and worse of the PN in government, and in the process becoming a hate figure, I am shocked at the...