Category: Library
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Promises and plans (I)
In “the power incumbent” we saw how certain projects are best presented and put into effect once a party is elected to government and not before. The “best” in that sentence is of course referring to the advantage gained by the party in question and does not necessarily reflect any benefit for the electors. That…
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Perspectives: Vote Mansour
As the chances of falling below the poverty line across Europe increases, the combined value of the Manchester City football squad is currently 419,615,000 €. Until Manchester City won the Premier league title, the owners spent over 700,000,000 €. That could buy you a BWSC plant, an inter-connector and the hypothetical new Labour party plant.…
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Questions of Bias II
The other issue relating to bias presented itself fittingly just as I was being discharged from my one-day stay in hospital. The one and only guest on Where’s Everybody’s TVHEMM was the indefatigable Franco Debono. Franco’s interlocutor on the programme would be the usual presenter – Norman Vella. The programme was presumably supposed to be…
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This honourable judge
Life on the island past the electoral truce has been anything but boring. There are times when the concept of boredom can begin to seem to be an unattainable desirable bereft of the negative connotations that normalcy and monotony might normally carry. These are the kind of times best described as “interesting” in the Chinese…
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Oħroġ il-għaġeb
Illejla, f’dawn in-naħat tal-Ewropa it-tfal ġa bdew jaqilgħu ir-rigali. Fil-Lussemburgu, il-Lorena u l-Alsazja għada jasal San Niklaw, akkumpanjat minn Pietru l-iswed. San Niklaw jew Sinterklaas (għalhekk Santa Claus – u QATT KrissmissFader) iqassam ir-rigali u Pietru l-iswed iqassam il-ħelu. Din it-tradizzjoni qatt ma waslet Malta u aħna bqajna bir-regola tal-milied fil-ħamsa u għoxrin u r-rigali…
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Forgotten Sons
Nikki Dimech has been condemned to one year in jail. The plight of the damned Nationalist Sliema Councillors seems aeons away now. The Sliema council ills were the first clear external signs that all was not well within the PN structure. We look back to the meetings between Paul Borg Olivier and the ill-fated councillors…