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IdeaMalta from a 'whacko' party

Monday, 27 October 2014, 14:41 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

In the past days, the Nationalist Party organized a national convention on the theme IdeaMalta. Perhaps, it would have been better had it been termed IdeaPN, because the first thing that the...

Simon Busuttil needs to bring the laces behind the ball!

Monday, 27 October 2014, 10:36 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Following the discourteous exit of Lawrence Gonzi, not only from the reigns of the country but also from those of the party Leadership, somehow everyone 'knew' that the next in line would be Dr Simon...

Roadmap on digital rendition

Monday, 27 October 2014, 07:59 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Farrugia

We live in strange times and bizarre things keep happening all around us near and far. And in times of such unprecedented uncertainty, people tend to either ignore things and suppress any grey matter...

Culture of entitlement

Sunday, 26 October 2014, 10:51 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

Few people realise that what they are getting for free is not free at all. That someone else is paying for it. When we speak of free education, free health care and a wide array of social...

The PN's 10 Fora

Friday, 24 October 2014, 08:39 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

The role of 10 fora created by the leader of the Nationalist Party is to reverse the headless chicken mode that his party is in after two successive electoral defeats. Whether he will succeed or...

Up to no good

Friday, 24 October 2014, 08:13 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Last Monday, in Parliament, I was sitting right opposite Konrad Mizzi and Joseph Muscat as they tried to deflect attention from their failure. I wasn't just listening to what was being said. I...

The Attorney General should let Leanne Camilleri be

Thursday, 23 October 2014, 07:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Hasn't Leanne Camilleri, the 20-year-old whose false sexual abuse allegations landed her father in prison for more than a year, had enough of a terrible life already? When she was found guilty of...

Deflecting attention

Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 09:11 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

One third into this legislature, the Labour government can still do no wrong for many of those who voted for it. With an Opposition that struggled to regroup and is still finding its feet after the...

Power station’s spin doctors

Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 10:14 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

The issue of the failed targets concerning the new gas power station by Labour Government is making news. The focus is on the failed target date, yet few have noticed that we have here the issue of...

The good, the bad and the ugly

Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 08:13 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

In popular parlance it has always been the good, the bad and the ugly.  Here, however I decided to place them in a different order, the bad, the ugly and the good. Let's stay positive. ...

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