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Fight the good fight

Thursday, 19 January 2017, 10:56 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

A few days ago, I wrote on my website that any Nationalist MP who isn’t prepared to get behind the party leader and fight hard, visibly and audibly, to win the general election is betraying the...

Energy from Malta

Thursday, 19 January 2017, 07:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Projects designed to create deliverable energy from the sun of the Saharan desert seem to be gaining momentum. Technologies in this area have developed sufficiently to make such delivery possible and...

Any Tom, Dick or Salvu

Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 08:49 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

So now we have an anti-politician, ‘would-be anarchist’ in the most conservative leaning party in Malta!  Confusing one might add.  Possibly, but it is also symptomatic of a...

Root causes of insecurity ignored in Firearms Directive

Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 15:08 Last update: about 11 years ago Miriam Dalli

Labour MEP Miriam Dalli today says that the European Union should not stop with the new Firearms Directive, but seek a better balance so as not to make life difficult for people who want to practise...

Salvu Mallia hijacks PN

Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 09:02 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

Salvu Mallia is too much of a free spirit to be caged within the confines of a political party. He should not have made himself available to join the Nationalist Party, and the Nationalist Party...

An apology may not be good enough

Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 07:49 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

Currently there are many political and socio-economic issues which merit an in-depth analysis, focused commentary or, at least, a mention.  Prior to taking to the keyboard, I surfed for a while...

European Parliament presidency

Monday, 16 January 2017, 08:01 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

This week at the European Parliament, the Malta government was scheduled to present its programme for the EU Presidency. At almost the same time, elections were due to be held for the presidency...

Decency is the way forward for the PN

Monday, 16 January 2017, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

Perhaps some of the most important political sayings that bear relevance to the political history of the Nationalist Party are to be found in the works of Seneca, the Younger. In this blog, I shall...

Salvu Mallia did what the entire Nationalist Party should have done

Sunday, 15 January 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The new Nationalist Party candidate, Salvu Mallia, stood outside the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday, wearing half a sandwich-board decrying government corruption and the European Commission's...

Of dead people and undead court cases

Sunday, 15 January 2017, 10:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

I still can’t get over the death of Lino Arrigo Azzopardi. We got on well together and were good friends. On either side of the EU referendum and accession, we were part of a small media...

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