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Journalists and sources

Thursday, 21 January 2016, 14:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

For a lawyer to demand that a journalist reveals the source behind the publication of a story is obscene. For this lawyer to demand such an obscenity when representing a Labour government minister in...

Falzon and Muscat: no surprises there

Thursday, 21 January 2016, 10:42 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

So Michael Falzon is the fall guy, as he was set up to be all along. Yes, he should have resigned – and in effect, he didn’t, but had the Prime Minister sack him instead. But then the...

Has economic growth taken off at last?

Thursday, 21 January 2016, 07:52 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

A new optimism is prevailing in Europe regarding the prospects for economic growth. It is hard to say precisely why this is so, since one cannot claim that economic growth prospects are strong, even...

Surveys and reassurances

Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 10:54 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I am pretty sure that both sets of party strategists are rubbing their hands after the recent polls conducted and published by Malta Today.  From whichever angle you interpret the outcomes they...

Silent trade unions

Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 14:48 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

Not so long ago, under a Nationalist administration, trade unions were very active in showing their disagreement each time something that negatively affected their members came up. Spearheaded by the...

Buying black gold with gold

Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 11:17 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

Unfortunately, Malta, as yet, is not a producer of black gold.  Various attempts were made by different administrations to tap this resource.  From time to time oil exploration missions were...

PN’s environment convention: Confound me, I'll understand!

Monday, 18 January 2016, 11:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

I have to admit that I do not have much faith in PN's Conventions. I was invited to the first convention and refused. I ended up lambasting that Convention, calling the PN a weird party. The PN...

What do we believe in?

Monday, 18 January 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Do we believe in a caring society? But what does a caring society stand for today, when so many people contribute to L-Istrina and the rest while falling in with the slogan that the market...

A hub of crime and smuggling

Sunday, 17 January 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Over the last three years or so there have been so many killings, murders, assassinations, call them what you will, of men involved in smuggling-related organised crime that they are now impossible to...

Restoring Order

Saturday, 16 January 2016, 09:11 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

It would be a good idea if the Prime Minister were to put Willie Mangion onto a new assignment to find a large, central, Mecca facing warehouse which can be used for another kind of practice –...

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