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It’s not your party

Friday, 24 April 2015, 08:44 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

 The tragedy which has engulfed the Mediterranean has left many people jolted and dumbstruck. After several tragedies on a smaller scale, it took this one to draw the attention of the entire...

There should be no doubt that Oskar Groening’s trial is necessary

Thursday, 23 April 2015, 07:58 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Oskar Groening was 21 when he worked in the death camp at Auschwitz. He wasn’t a guard or directly involved in the murders, but he knew what was going on and by staying at his job there he was a...

Simon and the mocking game

Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 08:08 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

As I anchored a simulcast involving TVM and Radju Malta (Ghandi xi Nghid) on Saturday morning during the Local Council elections counting process it was fascinating to note how people in Malta still...

A sweet defeat for the PN

Monday, 20 April 2015, 09:27 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

I can’t remember any other time when a defeat was welcomed with such enthusiasm, perhaps even triumph. The Labour Party made history by becoming the first government to win a local council...

My analysis

Monday, 20 April 2015, 08:54 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The biggest losers in this Local Council Elections were The Times and Joseph Muscat. The first because it failed to read the statistics well.The second for having let the political gap between him and...

No Switzerland in the Med

Sunday, 19 April 2015, 10:33 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

Everybody seems to have had his say about the referendum result and all attention is now on the local counil election results. After the carcades with shades of ISIS and boughs tied to cars,...

Is the abrogative referendum under threat?

Sunday, 19 April 2015, 10:11 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Until Alternnattiva Demokratika announced the abrogative referendum campaign on spring hunting almost two years ago, few Malyese knew that citizens were aware that they had such a right. Now that this...

Catch the wave

Saturday, 18 April 2015, 08:54 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

Let us start at the beginning, when some young , honest and hard working people had a cause and started going out on the streets, stopping at cars stuck in a queue to Gozo, or in traffic, knocking on...

Malta in the Medieval Compass Rose

Friday, 17 April 2015, 16:07 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

Next Tuesday, 21 April, at the main hall of the Italian Cultural Institute, at Piazza San Giorgio Valletta, Enrico Gurioli will be presenting his latest publication Il Piccolo LibrodeiVenti. Gurioli...

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