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What the hell do you have to lose?

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 09:14 Last update: about 10 years ago

What? You must be joking! Waste my precious electoral vote on them! Tahraqnix Man!   I wasn’t going around Republic Street conducting my own private opinion poll and perhaps risk...

The (moral) health of the nation

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 09:13 Last update: about 10 years ago

Anthony Zarb Dimech   Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts –...

Is the Planning Authority a failed institution?

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 09:12 Last update: about 10 years ago

We are hearing lots of words about failed institutions and it is important that the common citizen worries about this situation. Even a good Christian should use the following yardstick to see whether...

Obscene Muscatocracy ousts meritocracy

Friday, 5 May 2017, 16:42 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Mangion

The worst thing that happened to Joseph Muscat, the Labour Party and, unfortunately, to Malta, was that Labour won the 2013 election with an overwhelming majority of 35,107 votes. This result went to...

The Institutions Cry(sis?)

Friday, 5 May 2017, 16:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

We often tend to forget that as taxpayers and citizens, we are the prime employers of our country’s institutions.  Malta’s institutional bodies, such as the police force and the armed...

A blueprint for a new democracy

Friday, 5 May 2017, 14:01 Last update: about 10 years ago

2400 years ago saw the rise of Democracy, the system we use and adopt in the western world. However people are feeling that this political system is failing us. It is enough to look around us and...

Editorial: Godfrey Farrugia - Man for all seasons

Monday, 1 May 2017, 11:43 Last update: about 10 years ago

The ongoing saga regarding Pilatus Bank and the whistleblower together with all the signs of an impending dissolution of parliament may have taken pride of place on the news and social networks these...

Delivering firsts

Monday, 1 May 2017, 07:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Evarist Bartolo

The first of May has a special place in the hearts of progressives and liberals. It is a celebration of the dignity of working people and their struggle to improve their living conditions. Across...

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