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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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A Labour tsunami
The result of the election shows that when people want a change – whatever the rhyme or reason underpinning their desire – they will get it. In 2008 they almost did it. They did not go for it as the popularity of Lawrence Gonzi (the comparatively...
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THAT'S IT, THEN
The count is done and the PN got creamed. Such is the way of democracy and there's an end to it.This blog will be short, not because I'm not in the mood to write but because there's not much to say. Close it wasn't, by a long shot. Plenty of people...
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NOW DON'T BREAK IT
It's after 10:00pm on Election Day, so I can write what I like without worrying that a couple of the Force's finest will pitch up and feel my collar. For the record, chaps, I think I might have broken the law a couple of times or so on Saturday, so...
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What some of the papabile are saying
While waiting for the election tomorrow and the results on Sunday one can perhaps take a break from politics and concentrate about another impending election. I refer to the election of the new pope. Many commentators got it all wrong. They were...
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WHY NOT TO CHANGE
The day after tomorrow you’re going to vote to change the Government, or not. Joseph Muscat, simply gagging for it, has been asking, nay demanding that you do that for the last Heaven only knows how many months, and in the blog before this, I gave...
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Before I shut up
Election fever makes people say and do all sorts of things. Yesterday, an old friend of mine publically ‘accused’ me of being selfish. She told me that my support for Alternattiva Demokratika is based solely on my wanting gay marriage to be...
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CHANGE, BUT WHY, PRECISELY?
It’s fascinating how Joseph Muscat has managed to beguile some people, albeit because many of them have critical faculties that have been dulled by their infatuation with him or by their over-arching self-absorbtion. Promise these types a roof over...
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Let’s keep the hunters at bay
Let me get one thing straight. This election campaign has had its lows, its even lower lows and now the Labour Party agreement with the hunters is surely the depths of the pits. The environment is already rather on the precarious side, our...
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Stop the threats
This morning PBS announced that TVM presenters have been told in anonymous letters that come Monday morning, when Labour is in government, they will be swept out of TVM.“Nixkanawkom il-barra mill-istazzjon” was the phrase used in letters sent to the...
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MATCHING MISMATCHES
On Tuesday evening, there were two matches. One was between a class act, a true leader and awannabe. The other was between two teams who are not Chelsea, and therefore irrelevant, something on the lines of that lawyer bloke from some village or...
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What if an eagle lands on Parliament?
An election looms—yawn and triple yawn—and we can’t seem to get it out of our system. You can run and you can hide but the election fever will get you. Or the leaflets will get to you. And can someone tell me how many billboards can be set up per...
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UP TO YOU
It is the essence of democracy that your vote and mine are equal. You would not like this to be the case, I'm sure, because you're human and you think that your opinion is the very acme of exactness and probity. As do I, with reference to mine, of...
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Questioning Madness
Last week, a relative of mine was worried sick that for the first time in her life, she might have landed herself a traffic ticket. I too was kind of shocked to hear this news because the person in question never goes over 20km/hr, keeps her car in...
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DRAWING CLOSER
The time to scribble your numbers against the name is coming closer, an exercise on which will depend the gratification of Joseph Muscat's gasping aspiration to trip daintily up the steps to Castille. If you wish go grant him this wish, well, what...
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Is it me or is the world going barmy?
When politics used to be compared to a circus I never thought it was the clowns they were referring to. Now our politicians aren’t all just clowns—some of them in fact make less sense than the worst buffoons and dress up just like them in garish...
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ALMOST DONE
It's been a long campaign and even a political junkie like me finds it difficult to shake off the feeling that there's not much I can add to the sum of human knowledge when it comes to assessing the state of play.Not that this has ever stopped me...
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Blessed is he who departs in the name of the Lord
This evening at 8.00p.m. Pope Benedict formally relinquishes his ministry at the head of the Church. It is a sweet sour moment for the church. It is a time charged with a lot of emotion. It is also a strong moment of love, hope and faith. More than...
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