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Mintoff and the Spice Girls

Friday, 14 November 2014, 08:06 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Was anyone surprised, the other day, when Joseph Muscat said that Dom Mintoff should be appreciated for his objectives and not for how he went about things? That's another way of saying that the ends...

Liberal and progressive doesn’t mean lower standards

Thursday, 13 November 2014, 07:54 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Events of the past few weeks - or should we say those of the past 20 months? - have been a salutary lesson as to why politicians and other holders of high office should stick to better and stricter...

Public transport: a deeper mess

Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 15:28 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

I am lucky because I do not have to drive to go to the office. I consider this as a great advantage over my colleagues. I see them arrive at work flustered, angry and irritated after having to endure...

Send in the clowns

Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 07:56 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

Surprise! Surprise! Some may find the comments of Mr Mario Cutajar, Principal Permanent Secretary, on The Malta Independent last Sunday inappropriate.   Others may think his comments were in...

I am with the President

Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 07:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The President of the Republic, Marie Louise Colerio Preca in expressing solidarity with migrants, has become a source of political controversy. Fringe elements of our two main political parties have...

In-naghag ta' Bendu

Monday, 10 November 2014, 10:15 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Last Saturday during my programme on Radju Malta, Ghandi xi Nghid I discussed the boundless debate on the role of the media in society (http://andrewazzopardi.org/ghandi-x-nghid-radio-show/), the so...

Thinking Bhutan

Monday, 10 November 2014, 10:12 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Realities around us can and do change and most of the time, we cannot alter the path of the changes taking place. We ourselves are also subject to the effects of change. We can be healthy...

The fissiparous trend

Sunday, 9 November 2014, 11:01 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

It is useless asking why we all seem focused on our small world to the exclusion of anything happening beyond our shores. That is our insularity coming to the fore, again and again. Twenty-five years...

Your house is my house

Saturday, 8 November 2014, 08:46 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

Let's settle this score once and for all I say.  Give us back our property and our rights as landowners and stop this gross injustice now.  It is like there are two or three Maltas. One...

Putting the cart before the horse – Valletta

Friday, 7 November 2014, 08:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

By the expression putting the cart before the horse, I am not referring to the three-legged horse that was placed at the entrance of our capital city, and which has since been removed. This bronze...

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