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‘Tolle lege!’

Sunday, 26 March 2017, 08:34 Last update: about 10 years ago

During this privileged time of Lent, a time certainly full of God's favour for all of us, provided that we collaborate with his unfailing and patient grace, a friend of mine introduced...

Glass houses

Sunday, 26 March 2017, 08:32 Last update: about 10 years ago

Speaking during a live question-and-answer session on Facebook, held in order to mark four years in government, with reference to the db Group claim that, in order to cover the wages of Nationalist...

Ireland on the brink

Sunday, 26 March 2017, 08:31 Last update: about 10 years ago

Ireland used to be "more Catholic than the Pope". Not anymore! In a BBC documentary entitled "Mission in reverse: Ireland on the brink", the editor of an Irish Catholic newspaper said that the...

Different political thinking

Sunday, 26 March 2017, 08:30 Last update: about 10 years ago

To many people on the outside, the two political parties may look rather the same. A close examination and dissection of their streams of thought and the different fruit they produce when in...

Europe’s greatest trustworthy politician

Sunday, 26 March 2017, 08:29 Last update: about 10 years ago

Running for a fourth term as German chancellor, Angela Merkel has to recover the support she lost due to a controversial refugee policy that has divided Germany between those lauding her open-door...

Editorial: Gozo tunnel - the carrot dangling from the stick

Saturday, 25 March 2017, 12:13 Last update: about 10 years ago

The subject of the undersea Malta-Gozo tunnel was brought back to the surface on Thursday by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat when he addressed a public consultation meeting in Gozo, with the Cittadella...

Muscat’s auction for votes

Thursday, 23 March 2017, 09:44 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Mangion

Notwithstanding some shortcomings which the Nationalist administration might have had and although, from within, there were those who were pulling the carpet from under the feet of the administration,...

Editorial: From multi-ethnic to cosmopolitan

Wednesday, 22 March 2017, 09:34 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Prime Minister last Saturday introduced what may become the theme for the coming election campaign: Malta's next level will be to become a cosmopolitan island. Of course, this is a political...

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