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Joe Mizzi’s failures

Monday, 10 October 2016, 10:40 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

Joe Mizzi is not a popular minister these days. And it’s not because he did not find oil. It’s because of a much simpler solution he has failed to come up with since he took over...

Low interest rates

Monday, 10 October 2016, 08:05 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

It has been an unchanging scenario for quite a while and will not change soon: driven by the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme, by which the Bank is buying every month...

Two Anti-Fascists in Malta: their story

Monday, 10 October 2016, 08:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

On Friday, 30 September, at the Italian Cultural Institute, PBS presented its historical documentary on two Italian political refugees, Giuseppe Donati and Umberto Calosso. During the Fascist regime,...

Lots of people need reminding that Malta is a free country

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 11:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

In a free and democratic country, few things are as obscenely objectionable as the sight and sound of people doing their vociferous and manipulative best to try and prevent others from worshipping in...

Everything falls nicely into place

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 10:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

It must be autumn: there was Xarabank on TV on Friday and there will be Parliament tomorrow. The talk among the Maltese is about how terrible traffic has become. There is the England v Malta game...

Paceville Master Plan: greed or need?

Sunday, 9 October 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Land use planning is essentially public control over the use and development of land, so it necessarily follows that it should not be a speculators’ shopping list, implemented by the...

Chaos in the political scenario

Saturday, 8 October 2016, 09:21 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

The current political scenario in Malta is one almighty mess the likes of which have not been seen for decades, if ever at all.  It’s in chaos and out of control. Business is politics,...

Of foreigners, religion and integration

Friday, 7 October 2016, 10:58 Last update: about 11 years ago Salvu Mallia

In today’s vlog, Salvu Mallia deals with the presence of so many foreigners in our midst. Taking the recent controversy about the opening of a prayer room for Muslims in St Paul’s...

Muscat’s closet

Friday, 7 October 2016, 10:50 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The surveys published last Sunday by MaltaToday show a striking picture. The story has a very simple and clear message – Labour, under the leadership of Joseph Muscat, has managed to lose the...

Thursday Notebook

Thursday, 6 October 2016, 10:02 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

You know the traffic situation is completely out of control when on the same morning (yesterday, as it happens), two Air Malta flights - one to Munich and the other to Amsterdam - are delayed because...

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