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The campaign: take one

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 10:51 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

As I watched the big Labour mass meeting at Castille on Monday, I could not help noticing some changes: there was not a single EU flag to be seen and many in the crowd had reverted to the red Labour...

Let us save our own skin and to hell with the lot of you

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 10:17 Last update: about 11 years ago Alice Taylor

I have tried to stay out of politics, I really have. As a foreigner who washed up here the best part of a decade ago, what could I possibly say about the complex intricacies of a bipartisan country...

Malta re-loading

Saturday, 6 May 2017, 08:43 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

As the chickens come home to roost for the Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and their spouses and financial advisors and their dear friends who share a common goal in making the world a better place...

On Joseph, Glenn and AD

Friday, 5 May 2017, 15:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Salvu Mallia

The Labour Party is the first victim of Joseph Muscat and his politics, Salvu Mallia says today. The Nationalist Party candidate, in his vlog today, also speaks of Glenn Bedingfield, employed as...

And we still don’t know the reason why

Thursday, 4 May 2017, 11:10 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

As the entire country – the world, really, given the extensive coverage – knows by now, Malta goes to the polls on 3rd June. And we still don’t know the reason why.  The story...

Election

Thursday, 4 May 2017, 08:07 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Calling an early election can never be an easy decision – I know this from experience. You take it because you consider there is no serious alternative. The perspective is mainly that of the...

Grinding to a halt

Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 08:52 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Election And as anticipated by many and all, the election will be held in 4 weeks’ time, almost a year before it is due.  As is always the case, elections seem to be ‘the...

Pizza Egrant

Tuesday, 2 May 2017, 09:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

If I owned a pizzeria I would change the name of some of the pizzas available on the menu. A Margherita, a Capricciosa and a Quattro Stagioni would be replaced by an Egrant, a Pilatus and a Panama....

The failed coalition: a chronology

Tuesday, 2 May 2017, 08:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Arnold Cassola

Yesterday the PN closed the door to an electoral coalition with Alternattiva Demokratika with the aim of trying to defeat a government dominated by political delinquents of the calibre of Konrad...

PL’s initiatives for workers

Monday, 1 May 2017, 07:39 Last update: about 11 years ago Miriam Dalli

On May Day, Labour MP Miriam Dalli speaks about the measures taken by the Labour government in the last four years to improve workers’ conditions. She mentions the struggle against...

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