Two Degrees of misrepresentation
Monday, 21 January 2008, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The United Nations-led climate change conference in Bali will be remembered less for the “road map” that it eventually created than for a messy collision between the United States and much ...
Food, Fuel and the future
Monday, 21 January 2008, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
It may seem hard to imagine right now, but very soon the Maltese people will no longer be discussing who will win the imminent election, but whether the government is responsible for the ...
Very Vanilla crass crimes
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Is it just me or have you noticed too how the local front pages of way too many dailies are littered with two types of crime – attacks against women...
Politics Of pragmatism
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
The march of time is as relentless as it is inexorable. And as we face the New Year, we do so in the knowledge that this is an election year....
A Moment In Time: A magistrate’s whim or a lawyer’s persuasive power?
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Even going back 40 long years ago to my first reporting days at the Law Courts, I realise that it has always irked me to observe the sheer inconsistency that prevails in cases where the sitting magistrate...
Enthusiasm
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
As time passes, more people seem to feel that they do not belong to any political party. This is not a new phenomenon. In most modern countries the percentage of the population that consider themselves ...
Hey Jase, Thanks for the mammaries
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The trouble with choosing as your party’s secretary-general a man who’s not quite the sharpest knife in the drawer is this: he’s going to row you up s**t creek and...
Is There really no ‘big’ issue?
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Local media and several independent columnists seem to have bought into the idea, false in my opinion, that there is no “big” issue facing the electorate this time round....
Babies Having babies
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Malta has caught up with the world in most social problems, and teenage pregnancies are no exception....