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The reports from Malta are beginning to make the island sound like Italy in the famous “anni di piombo” – only that stabbing, and not shooting, seems to be the preferred form of violence in 1/3 of the cases reported in the last three days. Sadly all the victims were of the gentler sex and…
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For a while I too had got caught in the whole spin business about “our lazy parliamentarians who have delayed the end of summer recess unashamedly”. Having rightly sussed the nationalist ploy to survive to the start of the recess and then hopefully plot the end of Franco over the summer, I wrongly assumed that…
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Il-Membru Parlamentari Ewropew Nazzjonalista Simon Busuttil bħalissa bieżel ifakkar lill-kostitwenti tiegħu illi għadu kif ingħata premju bħala wieħed mill-Membri Parlamentari tas-Sena. Fil-każ tiegħu il-premju ingħata fil-qasam tas-saħħa, mid-dehra bħala rikonoxximent ta’ ħidmietu fil-qasam tad-dijabete “minkejja li la hu u la ħadd minn qrabatu ma huma afflitti minn din il-kundizzjoni”. Rajtha ħelwa wisq din tal-premju għall-ħidma…
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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…