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TMID Editorial: Adulation begets fawning

Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 10:38 Last update: about 10 years ago

One cannot miss how the PN media morphed seamlessly from Simon Busuttil to Adrian Delia. We used to get huge dollops of Busuttil fawning and we will now get huge dollops of Adrian Delia, with...

TMID Editorial: The new PN leader’s task ahead

Monday, 18 September 2017, 14:35 Last update: about 10 years ago

Let us do the maths first. 19,350 PN card holding members had the right to vote to choose the new PN leader. 3,849 of them did not manage to get their voting document, or did not bother. 759 collected their voting document but...

TMID Editorial: Simon’s swan song and his lasting legacy

Sunday, 17 September 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago

Simon Busuttil, who will officially step down from the helm of the Nationalist Party today, delivered his swan song departure speech at a party event on Friday night. And that swan song will, it can...

Termination and the Professor of Insults

Sunday, 17 September 2017, 08:58 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

The much-awaited result is probably already out, and one can only hope for the best. In the meantime, I have to answer to the opinion piece written last week by a 'major Maltese philosopher' who...

Marlene's magic trick

Sunday, 17 September 2017, 08:49 Last update: about 10 years ago Colette Sciberras

I have been asking myself since June how Marlene Farrugia managed to pull that magic trick on me. How could she have kept her PN membership card up her sleeve without anybody noticing? Did anyone...

Enhancing the nation’s wellbeing

Sunday, 17 September 2017, 08:49 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

Now that Malta has a strong and vibrant economy, we need a good infrastructure to complement it, to avoid escalating congestion costs and give the people what they deserve in a safe...

Europe for Europeans? Understanding the migrant crisis

Sunday, 17 September 2017, 08:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Christopher Attard

Maltese people living in Malta generally want to live in a Maltese society. The same is true for most other countries which haven't been irrevocably brainwashed into the intercontinental carpark of an...

What Is important?

Saturday, 10 March 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Mr J.M. Briffa (TMID, 2 March) urges us not to be negative and write in favour of such issues such as divorce and euthanasia. ...

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