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  • The Hidden Hand, Fundamentalist Liberals and other tales

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    Something strange happened in parliament yesterday. George Vella meant to congratulate Tonio Borg for his appointment to the post of Commissioner and apparently did so. In doing so though he came up with some weird theory about a “hidden hand” that could have been behind John Dalli’s resignation (so he did resign?) and the opposition…

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  • IDEAT Journal – A job well done

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    The PL’s recently founded think-tank, IDEAT, has just published its first quarterly online journal – Ideat Journal. We might tend to judge a journal by whether or not we agree with its content – which would not be the right way to go about it. I’ve read through some of the articles and on the…

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  • Twits and Tweets

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    JosephMuscatPL is Joseph Muscat’s twitter name. He has just tweeted the following: “Il-PL jaspira ghal separazzjoni bejn Stat u Knisja b’rispett reciproku”. (The Labour party aspires for a separation between State and Church with mutual respect). Why? Yes. That is my question. What exactly am I, a voter, supposed to make of this? I mean…

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