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Bikinis in Spring

Friday, 17 April 2015, 07:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Statistics are like bikinis. What they show you can be quite revealing, but what they never show you, on their own, is what's vital: The dynamic. In the past weeks we have been bombarded with...

Joseph Muscat and the media

Thursday, 16 April 2015, 10:10 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

Accusing the media for taking a stand on a particular subject is unbecoming of a Prime Minister – unless his intentions are to gag newspapers, TV stations and online portals. Joseph Muscat...

How apt for Malta that a cuckoo should be shot first

Thursday, 16 April 2015, 08:04 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The hunting season opens, and less than 24 hours go by before the first angry hunter, who by his own admission on Facebook has never felt as “mentally unwell” as he did in the weeks before...

Calling the shots

Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 10:18 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I feel that this ballot has shown us how much our country is developing in terms of participation, of engagement and of calling the shots.  There are a number of pointers that indicate that our...

A post-referendum analysis: the Gonzi factor

Tuesday, 14 April 2015, 12:15 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The hunting referendum has come and gone. As rightly described by Alex Perici Calascione, this referendum gained nothing for the hunters and simply confirmed the status quo. However, the resulting...

Challenging times for the PN

Tuesday, 14 April 2015, 08:26 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

Last Saturday, 68% of the electorate in 34 localities across Malta and Gozo accepted an open invitation and cast their vote to elect their mayor and other members of the respective local councils....

SHout got it all wrong

Monday, 13 April 2015, 09:44 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

No matter how much they say that they lost by a whisker, the SHout campaign must look within to discover the reasons why spring hunting will continue for years to come. Losing by one vote is as big a...

One hundred and forty-eight

Sunday, 12 April 2015, 10:40 Last update: about 12 years ago Jenny Pullicino Orlando

We’re simply not talking about what happened in Garissa, Kenya. No, really: I’m sorry, but in relative terms, no one is. Is it the geographical proximity or the colour of their skin that...

Taking back control

Sunday, 12 April 2015, 10:22 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Throughout this Sunday morning the Electoral Commission will supervise the counting of the votes cast in yesterday’s spring hunting abrogative referendum. The first reliable projections of the...

Glad All Over

Sunday, 12 April 2015, 10:19 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

I always feel like stamping my feet and singing out Dave Clark’s sixties wonder hit Glad All Over – alone, in some isolated room of course, as I can neither dance nor sing – every...

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