Category: Library
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PM discusses sleeping habits with Debono
From The Times: Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi had a meeting with Franco Debono this evening, two days after the Nationalist MP missed two votes in parliament, denying the government its majority. Dr Debono also did not attend a meeting of the PN parliamentary group on Tuesday, and could not be contacted. Party whip David Agius late on…
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Franc(o) Incenses All before Christmas Recess
It’s Erskine May and Alfred-May-Not all over again in Parliament as a seemingly innocuous vote about who should head two parliamentary committees almost resulted in the government side losing two votes. It was not exactly a government crushing moment and much as the labour side try to cook up a theory of “instable government” behind…
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Sub Judice – Bad Romance
Elsewhere in the blogging world, a blogger takes pride of the fact that other columnists “waited until Noel Arrigo’s trial was concluded to laugh in print about his confessors and aborted trips to Lourdes, leaving me to crack jokes alone (not that I mind, of course)”. The whole hullabaloo was raised because Saviour Balzan seems to…
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What Goes Around Comes Around (at least 1/410.6 does)
A funny thing happened in the news today. This morning the Times was informing us of the PLPN’s respective takings in the farcical “donations” to the needy parties race. This evening the magnanimous dudes at Triq Herbert Ganado relished a photo op while donating €1,000 from the record sales of the book about former “lijder”…
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Christmas Party Hampers (declared)
In which J’accuse provides the commentary on the annual charade of Christmas donations to the Nationalist and Labour parties.