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A few thoughts on journalism

Monday, 11 September 2017, 08:11 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Watching Salvu Balzan interviewing the two contenders for the PN leadership was painful. It’s not only that he struggles to extract a question, as if he were his own dentist and his...

16-year-olds voting in national elections

Sunday, 10 September 2017, 10:40 Last update: about 10 years ago

Our country has embarked on an interesting project – whether or not to give 16-year-olds the right to vote in general elections. This is an exciting proposition that could be introduced in Malta...

Teaching ethics and social responsibility

Sunday, 10 September 2017, 09:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Kenneth Wain

Until I read Mark A. Sammut’s contribution of 20th August (‘Kenneth Vain’) last Sunday morning, I had intended not to reply to his August 13th contribution. But reading it with its...

TMIS Editorial: PN at a crossroads

Sunday, 10 September 2017, 09:45 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Nationalist Party is at a crossroads and its members are being asked to choose which way to turn to see them through what are arguably the party’s darkest days since the 1980s. Both...

Effective change is possible without showmanship

Sunday, 10 September 2017, 08:44 Last update: about 10 years ago

The key word in the Nationalist Party leadership election, perhaps in any leadership election, is change. It is really very easy to preach it but how can one implement it? Can we change a complex...

Success is all about good leadership

Sunday, 10 September 2017, 08:42 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

Many of our aims take time to be achieved, but the first days have shown our determination. The proverbial first hundred days of a government are indicative of its commitment – more so when the...

Creating the scenario for a political jury again

Sunday, 10 September 2017, 08:39 Last update: about 10 years ago Michael Asciak

I am not in the PN's administration nor am I a member of the party's executive although I have been a member of both in the distant and not too distant past. Therefore, in current parlance I am not a...

Consumerism and prostitution

Sunday, 10 September 2017, 08:38 Last update: about 10 years ago

Am I alone in being regularly accosted by 19-year-old plus girls (or their mothers) to pay for a service which should not be relegated to being just a service but is the world's loveliest expression...

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