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Migration: More procrastination over burden sharing

Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 08:18 Last update: about 12 years ago

As the Libyan Unity talks began in Morocco yesterday, Italy and the UK have begun to make some loud noises on Migration. On Saturday, Britain’s UK Defence Minister defended his country’s...

Cast in concrete

Monday, 8 June 2015, 08:32 Last update: about 12 years ago

The news of the past hours have proposed a new twist to the saying Cast in Stone. For no sooner than the Prime Minister said he intends to put all his power into delving into the Mater Dei...

Who’s benefiting now?

Saturday, 6 June 2015, 06:57 Last update: about 12 years ago

Unfortunately, it is a measure of the widespread skepticism that has come to cloud anything the government announces that each new announcement by the government has people asking who is this going to...

Parliament TV shows our representatives for what they are

Friday, 5 June 2015, 07:52 Last update: about 12 years ago

Only last week, we penned a leading article saying that the behaviour of politicians in our parliament was unbecoming of what one would expect in a modern democracy. We mentioned that thankfully,...

Mater Dei: Obvious systematic fraud in construction

Wednesday, 3 June 2015, 08:13 Last update: about 12 years ago

The fallout from the findings of the Sciberras inquiry report into the weak concrete mix used at Mater Dei should serve as a wake-up call. For far too long, in this weird and wonderful country of...

Development: Malta is becoming a permanent building site

Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 09:55 Last update: about 12 years ago

In an interview given to this newspaper, Front Harsien ODZ spokesman Micahel Briguglio made the observation that almost all of us make on a daily basis – Malta has become a permanent building...

Zonqor: Bandwagons, pristine land and political jostling

Monday, 1 June 2015, 08:16 Last update: about 12 years ago

Yesterday was an exercise in a political game of ‘Risk’, which must have seen strategists and spin doctors scratching their heads at Mile End and Dar Centrali. The PN scored perhaps...

Surely not scatter-brained; probably a Freemason

Sunday, 31 May 2015, 09:21 Last update: about 12 years ago

The article published by this newspaper on Sunday on the discovery of a new document relating to Vassalli carried Professor Frans Ciappara's explanation that "that in 1796, while preparing to print...

Determining right or wrong

Sunday, 31 May 2015, 09:19 Last update: about 12 years ago

This comment is an extension to my contribution called “Citizenship or ethics” but it can stand on its own. Everybody starts forming an opinion of what is right and wrong from an...

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