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Blowing your own trumpet. Over-selling yourself. &c. &c. As though it is not enough that your average voter is kept completely in the dark as to the actual content of the plans for government from the two major parties (barring of course a hermeneutic roadmap or other) he also has to succumb to the marketing…
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Jiġru affarijiet kulltant li int mingħalik kienu jiġru biss lil ħaddieħor. Kull tant ieħor nieqaf u naħseb li “il-ħaddieħor” li għandna ġo moħħna ma hu xejn ħlief l-alter ego tagħna. Dak li l-ebda qaddis ma jgħinu, dak li kull żvintura tiġri lilu u dak li kif ngħidu f’dawn iż-żmenijiet moderni … jekk għandu jerdgħu jerdgħu.…
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Something’s going all Pete Tong in the Nationalist party pre-electoral strategy. Either that or the powers of self-persuasion among some people must be unnaturally high. If a week is a long time in politics then surviving the minefield of a combined JPO & Franco Debono assault on the stability of a slender parliamentary majority for…
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A homosexual, a woman, a Gozitan, a farmer, a patient, a hunter, a student and an election candidate walked into a room. Is it the start of the latest viral joke? No, it’s just work as usual at Labour’s Congress about the future that unites us. Progressive Labour seems to be fuelled by cliches and…
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Donnhom jagħmluha bi ħsieb. Tasal elezzjoni u jzeffnu l-art fin-nofs. Tkun se toqrob elezzjoni u min forsi ikun xi ftit marid b’dik il-fissazzjoni dwar valuri, ideat u politika ta’ prinċipji isib ruħu imdawwar bi kronaka kriminali, psewdo-kriminali u allegazzjonijiet ta’ attivitajiet korrotti. Ħa ngħiduha kif inhi – il-politika imkien ma hi abjad fuq iswed. Ma…