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Has he lost the plot?

Saturday, 17 September 2016, 08:56 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

Until a relatively short while ago, the view held by a good portion of the public, was that they were pleased with themselves for having chosen to “switch” and vote for the Movement of...

Brincat, a tribe and political mythology

Saturday, 17 September 2016, 08:55 Last update: about 11 years ago Salvu Mallia

In his first video blog for The Malta Independent portal, Salvu Mallia speaks about his disappointment after his popular programme “Madwarna” was stopped by PBS because, he says, he had...

Blame it on Brexit and not the PN

Saturday, 17 September 2016, 08:52 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

The Labour media is up in arms and putting the blame of what has happened in the European Parliament on the Nationalist Opposition. This argument does not hold water as a similar situation already...

An eye and a tooth

Friday, 16 September 2016, 09:54 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

At the last general election Muscat’s Labour Party campaigned in the name of sweetness and light. Gone, gone forever, was the vindictive Labour of the golden years. Over the last three and a...

Leo Brincat and Joseph Muscat: more bad blood for Malta

Thursday, 15 September 2016, 10:51 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Desperate and undignified, Leo Brincat has brought out his (obviously miniature) battering-ram and is now doing what he can to force open the door to the European Court of Auditors and a salary of...

Infamy

Thursday, 15 September 2016, 07:48 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

There’s no better way to describe the decision of the Nationalist Party for its MEPs to vote against the nomination of Leo Brincat to sit on the European Court of Auditors than this: call it a...

A(nother) humiliation for Malta

Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 09:22 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

The government’s insistence with Leo Brincat’s nomination for a place on the European Court of Auditors makes me think that Joseph Muscat believes that his lobbying with his Brussels...

A facetious archbishop?

Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 07:50 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I remember very clearly as I was growing up in the 1980s when the social conditions in Malta were terrible, when all we talked about was politics, when those on the other side of the fence were...

Jersey justice and plastic flowers

Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 09:06 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

Every now and then, on Friday evenings, I meet a couple of friends in a quiet village pub. We are spoilt with an assortment of home-made, tasty bites to complement a couple of shots of fine...

L-isbaħ żmien għal Malta.. għadu ġej!

Monday, 12 September 2016, 12:24 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Jien naħseb li aħna qed ngħixu f'pajjiż fejn ma jonqosna xejn. Saħħa b'xejn, edukazzjoni b'xejn, jekk tmut u ma jkollokx joħduk u jidfnuk xorta, u jekk...

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