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The pro-life world is responsible for a lot of dead women

Sunday, 4 February 2018, 11:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alice Taylor

I have crossed swords with many "pro-life" fanatics over the last few weeks, in fact it is fast becoming one of my favourite past-times. But there is one thing that has struck me when I have been...

Gear-change time

Sunday, 4 February 2018, 10:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

It’s been a rum week, with all sorts of non-events, anti-climaxes, missed appointments and the like. Following the highpoint that was the beginning of the European Capital of Culture, this was a...

Turning the Fuel Service Stations Policy on its head

Sunday, 4 February 2018, 10:01 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Last Wednesday, the Parliamentary Environment and Land Use Planning Committee discussed the possible revision of the Fuel Service Stations Policy. The three development permits issued in recent weeks...

Decency, our greatest export

Saturday, 3 February 2018, 09:40 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

A government that is self-congratulatory is a government on the edge of reason.  It denotes lack of self-criticism, devaluation of the opinion of others, satisfaction with one's own...

INDEPTH: PN still without position on IIP extension

Friday, 2 February 2018, 10:54 Last update: about 7 years ago INDEPTH online

The Nationalist Party parliamentary group is still discussing what its position should be regarding the second round of the IIP scheme, PN Deputy Leader for Parliamentary Affairs David Agius said on...

Proposals

Friday, 2 February 2018, 08:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

When I entered the room in the European Parliament last week, I knew that I would be given very little time to put forward my arguments, so I had to be short, concise and to the point...

Sexual violence

Thursday, 1 February 2018, 07:50 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

There can be no keeping back in efforts to eliminate sexual violence in all its forms. As polities implement the principle that an open and protected space should be maintained where such...

Dear Victoria

Wednesday, 31 January 2018, 08:47 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I thought I would write a couple of lines following your untimely death - but where do I start from?  Well maybe I should begin from the fact that you are now six feet under I suppose. ...

Victoria

Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 07:59 Last update: about 7 years ago Gejtu Vella

In the past years, I have regularly penned my views on a wide range of issues but, admittedly, this is the first time that I write with a heavy heart.  I have rarely ever felt my blood boiling...

Brussels sprouting...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 07:50 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

There should be no doubt that something is seriously rotten in the state of Shakespeare’s Denmark as far as Brussels is concerned. The march of the populist Far Right across the continent is...

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