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Chronicling the Press (1)
The Press A selection of articles dealing with the Labour Leadership Campaign: Towards electing a prospective PM – Leo Brincat (TMI) Spin and an Abela-Muscat Winning Tandem – Lino Spiteri (TOM) Eyes on Labour – Editorial (STOM) No More Secrets – Claire Bonello (STOM) Incredible? Well, say remarkable – Lino Spiteri (STOM) A strange paradox – […]
Posted in: Chronicling the Press
Nothing Underneath
April 7, 2008
by Jacques René Zammit
Sandro Vella kicks off the first in a series of TMC articles dealing with the Labour Leadership Campaign TMC reminds its readers that it is open to contributions. These articles will also be appearing on the Beta site http://themaltachronicle.wordpress.com. China blocked access to YouTube so that its citizenry would not be able to see what […]
Posted in: Labour Leadership Debate
The Great Labour Debate
April 6, 2008
by Jacques René Zammit
TMC Wants You Who will we crown as Labour’s King (or Queen) – Have Your Say The elections are over but The Malta Chronicle continues. The next prickly choice after 8th March will happen on the 5th of June. On that day the Malta Labour Party will elect a new leader and usher a new […]
Posted in: Labour Leadership Debate
Is voting for the “lesser evil” a reasonable option?
February 27, 2008
by Jacques René Zammit
This is a question several thousand people will be asking themselves at the moment: and it will be the determining factor on March 8th. If Malta were simply a business venture, my hunch is that the Nationalist Party would cruise through to another deserved victory for being a “very good” rather than a “less bad” option. But […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
Terinati u bluhat oħra (Updated)
February 6, 2008
by Jacques René Zammit
Fausto Majjistral jafha sew l-istorja u ma tmerihx malajr. Kiteb dwar il-ġrajja ta’ Ettore Bono, imlaqqam Terinu li, imqabbad min-Nazzjonalisti taż-żmien, ħalef li ra ‘l Strickland liebes ta’ mażun, u l-affidavit tiegħu nxtered mal-Belt fuq karti volanti eżatt lejlet l-elezzjoni. Minnu, Strickland xorta tela’ u ma effettwatux il-biċċa, imma minn dakinhar ‘il quddiem, il-PN beda […]
Posted in: Electoral Themes
Bang! Bang! They Vote Him Down
February 6, 2008
by Jacques René Zammit
Cometh the election, cometh the hunter. What has finally become an endangered species of its own right still numbers 17,816 voters of its own. Or at least that is what the Hunter’s Federation claimed today. Now we do get the feeling that public interest in the number of hunters is mostly based on the hope […]
Posted in: Electoral Promises, Electoral Themes
Fear and Loathing in Hamrun
February 5, 2008
by lanzarote2007
Emotions are running high down at Mile End, Hamrun. Labour folk are in superb spirits. That marathon man of European politics, Alfred Sant, made yet another remarkable comeback and was given a hero’s welcome by the ecstatic crowd over at the glass house. Maltastar.com, that unseemly mix of fawning propaganda and tits and bum gossip […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
April 8, 2008
by Jacques René Zammit
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