Category: Politics
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The Barter Parties
It’s all happening in the PAC committee. The latest politicians to come under fire from the state’s evidence provider’s revlations are Austin Gatt and Manwel Mallia. It is good that the PAC committee is digging into the evidence in relation to “corruption scandals” but we must be forgiven if we remind all and sundry that…
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BBC World Update on IIP
BBC’s World Update will be discussing Malta’s planned (?) IIP scheme. A post on Facebook announcing the programme has already attracted quite a long string on comments (see post here – Facebook account required). Aside from the ridiculous Labour party accusations that the whole international press attention is some kind of Opposition un-nationalistic concerted attack,…
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The Hunter outside the Palace
When we decided to change the logo of SDM (the Christian Democrat Student organisation) in the mid-1990s we had decided to include a motto within a design that was meant to portray citizen participation and inclusion. The slogan, taken from Caldera’s tome describing the Christian Democrat principles translated as such “the ideal democratic palace is…
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Vitrines
My last visit to Vilnius was in 2002. I tend to remember the date of that visit mainly because of the inbuilt “football clock” – there was the Korea & Japan World Cup at the time. That last visit was also for a conference. I was a junior lawyer on the Maltese government’s team negotiating…
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It-tiftixa tal-klassi mitlufa mill-fond ta’ pultruni sħan
Dan l-aħħar dan il-blog ġie akkużat li kien “klassist” u “elitist”. Ġie appik dak il-kumment għax kont diġa fi proċess ta’ thewdin u ħsieb dwar dan il-kunċett ta’ klassi. Fuq diskursata li kienet għaddejja fuq Facebook kont tfajt (iktar bi provokazzjoni milli b’konvinzjoni) li l-“klassi” hija mejta. Mhux għax nemmen li l-idea, il-kunċett astratt ta’…
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Ġieħ il-Banana
Għażiża Gaia, Din il-bloggata ma hix xi forma ta’ stmerrija jew disprezz lejn it-talenti u potenzjal tiegħek. Semgħek tkanta min kellu jisimgħek, u nies li żgur huma tal-widna iktar minni u li jifhmu fil-mużika wisq iktar minni raw fik talent mill-isbaħ li jekk indukrat tajjeb għad iferraħ widnet bosta oħrajn. Din ma hi bl-ebda mod…