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PUT A ROOF ON IT
Insofar as Labour used any means available to hoover up all the votes that were up for grabs, you can't really blame them, especially when it was a manifestly successful ploy. Perhaps one would have preferred the choice to have been made on more...
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A few questions and facts … no comments
Let me start by putting a number of questions about an imaginary scenario. What would you say if this evening Government issues a press statement saying that the law regulating the appointments of directors on government owned entities will be...
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Only ray of hope?
I really don’t know what is happening to the PN. This glorious group of people who masterminded Independence and EU membership and a few other magical feats—like upgrading us seamlessly into the 21st century from a third-world country—now seems...
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PAPAL BULL
The new Pope seems to be something of a non-conformist, though to be honest, I'm getting a bit iffy about his ostentatious poverty, if that isn't an oxymoron. I mean, fine, eschew the Prada slippers, but not moving into the Papal Apartments?...
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Even vermin deserve better
Let me do what I promised myself and be as objective as possible about the PL in Government. Let me in fact be a bit more than that and promise, on my word of honour, that I will be lenient and try to close a few thousand eyes in my analysis. This...
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More Papal tweets
Besides the papal tweet I commented on last time, I would like to comment on two other tweets by Pope Francis; also because their subject dovetails with the events we are commemorating and re-living during Holy Week. 1. Pope Francis @Pontifex 19...
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Expecting too much from the Pope
Now that the (gold) dust has settled over the papal throne, it’s time I add my two cents to the plethora of criticism that accompanied the obvious ‘habemus papam’ statuses on all social media fora. Those who follow me with even sporadic regularity...
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When the Pope goes tweeting in …. (1)
On the occasion of Holy Week I wish to introduce you to Pope Francis the Twitter-er. He is the first pope with the name of Francis and the second one who tweets. Pope Benedict was the first tweeting pope. In fairness to all the popes who preceded...
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THE TRUE MEANING OF MERITOCRACY
The appointment of Judge (Retd.) Vanni Bonello to the Commission charged with reforming justice is a pretty accurate definition of meritocracy in its classic, and correct, application. Also sitting on the Commission will be the Dean of the Faculty...
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Men do it differently
The dead of winter seems to be over, and with it the pits of small island politics. I don’t know which one of these I’m happiest about but, the combination of the two is making me break into dances of joy wherever I am. Of course the political...
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AN UNEDIFYING SIGHT
The veritable thrashing that the PN suffered at the polls has many underlying causes, if you'll forgive me what can only be described as a statement of the bleedin' obvious. It also led to a number of effects, which can only be described as another...
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The changes that prove we never change
So, as some wit once put it succinctly, the more things change the more they remain the same. No, it isn’t just my writing or my wit that is the same old stuff—it’s that exciting subject politics I’m referring to. Will this be a rant against Super...
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No gain from rushing and no need to rush
On March 10, just a couple of hours after the announcement of the massive victory of the Partit Laburista I wrote a commentary titled “Labour Tsunami.” In the concluding paragraph I wrote that the Nationalist Party now needs to regroup and...
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THEY JUST DON'T GET IT
I didn't think I'd have to do this, but I'm going to have to "Janet & John" this whole blogging thing, aren't I? So, here goes: blogging is not reporting news. Neither is it a scholarly exercise aimed at giving a balanced analysis of any given set...
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A MUSING
Fun can be had on both sides of the spectrum these days, indeed, on both sides and a bit. The most fun I'm currently having is watching people try to deflect the blame for the PN's almighty thrashing from themselves by, for instance, trying to dump...
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It’s a girl!
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, we’re now well into 2013, the electoral mayhem is finally over and, lo and behold, the sun is still rising from the East. But our ceasefire was short lived because as soon as the ballot sheets were put aside, we had...
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Father Jorge: the new Pope
Seventy seven cardinals from 48 countries have elected a 76 year old Argentinian Jesuit as the 266 Pope of the 1.2billion Catholics. Francis is his name. Before he became pope he was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He broke with tradition...
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Things I learnt from this election
It’s never too early for a greasy hotdog Valletta, Monday, 7am. The road leading to Castille is lined with fast food vendors and the aroma of reheated sunflower oil fills the air in the best artery-clogging tradition. You’d think stomachs would be...
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Go go Gonzi
The people have spoken. And how they have. A resounding go Gonzi, go away. To people my age, or thereabouts, the words go-go are slightly naughty. Go-go dancers were the then tasselled strippers or lap-dancers, to give them their modern name. Gonzi...
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THE NEW AGENDA
It's going to be an interesting time ahead, now that the political landscape has undergone something of a Titanic shift in its tectonic plates. Labour is in government, set fair for five years without those minor stresses and strains caused by a one...
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