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The last straw

Sunday, 25 April 2021, 09:57 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The situation is now unbearable. The discriminatory gender mechanism introduced in the Constitution by consent of the PNPL duopoly is definitely the last straw. The PNPL duopoly have now been at it...

And what if the anti-vaxers are right?

Sunday, 25 April 2021, 07:58 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

The peoples of the advanced countries of the world are coming under increased pressure to take the anti-Covid vaccine, which are seen as the only way to bring the devastating pandemic under...

The young and the beautiful

Saturday, 24 April 2021, 07:01 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

The most recent crop of Labour cronyism coming to light centres on the young and the beautiful. From the busy and efficient Rosianne Cutajar, moonlighting into a real estate agent, to other...

A clean bill of health

Friday, 23 April 2021, 07:47 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

This is a reformist Government. Ever since the Labour administration was elected to lead this country, it embarked on a journey of implementing a series of institutional and social reforms which had...

Social media

Thursday, 22 April 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

I still have not found anywhere a study the covers comprehensively how the social media are impacting on the quality of life of us all. Those who remember how life was before the emergence of...

Be the change

Thursday, 22 April 2021, 07:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Malta has been under siege by political events for most of the past eight years. What was sold as the best time for our country in the run up for the 2013 general election, a dream, has become a...

NGOs cannot afford another thumping

Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 08:08 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Our NGOs have been on the receiving end of another thumping, the latest one being legal notices that went through the parliamentary system and passed right under the nose of every Government and...

Cost of insularity and the future of Malta in Europe

Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 07:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

Europe needs to reconnect with citizens and listen better to their needs and aspirations. All the European politicians I have met over the past years, from Tajani to Juncker to many others in...

Digital protection

Monday, 19 April 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The chairman of the American Central Bank – or better the Federal Reserve Board – made a statement during a televised interview that really surprised me. He confessed that the greatest...

A cremated idea?

Sunday, 18 April 2021, 10:07 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

I first wrote in The Malta Independent at its inception, way back in the early 1990s, when I raised the case for cremation, until then a pretty hush-hushed issue within Maltese society because of some...

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