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Two more August book reviews

Sunday, 14 August 2022, 06:52 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

It’s August, and whereas I’m still writing on politics in the Nationalist Party daily, here I want to prolong my vacation of sorts. Like last time, I want to present a book review. Well,...

Dad’s Army 2022

Sunday, 14 August 2022, 06:49 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

They called, Joseph Muscat and Manwel Cuschieri that is, and at the appointed time only a score of Labour core turned up, most of them elderly. Not even JPO, who pledged he would be there. The...

A hidden gem – the Jesuit Church in Valletta

Friday, 12 August 2022, 10:18 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

Our capital city is adorned with fantastic patrimony and historical buildings.  We are proud of the legacy that we have inherited from our forefathers and we are investing our energy and funds to...

The boy who 'was left' to die

Thursday, 11 August 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

The controversy in the UK about whether the boy who had been medically certified as brain dead should have been left on a life support machine which kept him “alive” or taken off it, was...

Let us embrace diversity

Tuesday, 9 August 2022, 08:13 Last update: about 5 years ago Evarist Bartolo

One of the best speeches urging people to embrace diversity and celebrate it is that given by King Harald V of Norway six years ago: “It is not always easy to say where we are from, what...

Social inequalities

Monday, 8 August 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

A sense of frustration is growing among people at the way by which laws and regulations are being followed or circumvented. It seems as if there frequently exist two tracks along which to deal with...

The devastation dealt by demagogues

Sunday, 7 August 2022, 09:58 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

The world is slowly coming to its senses. The wave of populist demagoguery is waning. The strongman who promised to save his country was just a fraud. The man who rode a whirlwind of applause and...

Platform work: digital slave labour?

Sunday, 7 August 2022, 08:55 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The rumblings on the working conditions of those engaged in local digital platform work have been around for some time. Last February one of them, a 28-year-old Nepalese, was involved in a fatal...

Remembering Summer 2022 and its excesses

Sunday, 7 August 2022, 06:57 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

The chaos and worse at what we call the Blue Lagoon skipped a heartbeat when the activists led by Graffitti turned up and removed the loungers taking over the minuscule bay for the general...

Music

Saturday, 6 August 2022, 09:42 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

This week we proudly announced the opening of applications for the holding of festival Mużika Mużika’s third edition next year. Mużika Mużika 2023 is set to take place...

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