The World around us ...
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
I had a dreamI started writing this page to you from a very windy and rain-swept London. I finished it in the warm sun of Sri Lanka hoping to see England ...
When Ignorance is not bliss
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
A new apartheid seems to have sprouted in Maltese society. Over the past few days hundreds of young people received their degree certificates in graduation ceremonies marking the successful end of their studies at university. ...
Car Tax – end game in sight?
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Finance ministers are happier when earnings coming into their country are consistently greater than the purchase cost of imported goods; a trad...
Please Don’t let them kill me
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
For my sins, pun intended, I am very rarely in agreement with most Vatican standpoints on certain issues, particularly divorce, women priests and celibacy. But when the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato Martino, ...
Political Intimidation in Malta
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
The topic of political discrimination recently came up in the political debate going on in our country. Some politicians tend to deny that political intimida...
What Do you really really want?
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
The so-called donor scandals surrounding the Labour Party in the UK, and our own local debates about party funding, demonstrates above all else a schizophrenic attitude to the way we do politics in a modern democracy....
Developing New air links - the Near and Middle East
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
A year ago it was reported that the Maltese Embassy in Riyadh had managed to get Saudi tour operators interested in destination Malta (TOM, 24 October 2006). Later, the Excelsior Hotel management ...
Moment Of truth
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 17 years ago
Malta Independent
In politics, as in love, silence is more beneficial than speech. The discerning electorate takes careful measurement of its circumstances and acts accordingly....
Brains In their underpants
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
One of the most frightening aspects of the human race is not its propensity towards cruelty, but its seemingly limitless ability to reason with its nether regions. People go to school; they read books and newspapers and...
Sport And education: The value of winning (2)
Saturday, 8 December 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Near the entrance to the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi were two famous inscriptions: “know thyself”, and “nothing in excess”. These inscriptions were intentionally open to interpretation...