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How do they know?

Monday, 12 October 2020, 07:49 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

One sets out to make a purchase over the internet... let’s say a book at Book Depository... and then one changes one’s mind. How come that for days on end after that, while visiting other...

El Gran Masturbador

Sunday, 11 October 2020, 10:53 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

El Gran Masturbador, “The Great Masturbator”, is a 1929 fantastic surrealist painting by the Catalan artist Salvador Dalí that probably reflects the artist’s ambiguous...

Incinerating trust, fairness and common sense

Sunday, 11 October 2020, 10:41 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

A public consultation is currently under way until the 21 October relative to an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) which examines Wasteserv’s proposal:  the development of a Waste to...

The dishonourable way out

Sunday, 11 October 2020, 08:54 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

Kings come. Kings go. But the way they go is usually the way they will be remembered. Joseph Muscat is no longer a member of parliament. The honourable Dr Muscat is honourable no more. Not that he...

Sending the wrong responses

Sunday, 11 October 2020, 07:52 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

They’re at it again. The government taking an important statement made outside Malta, carefully excising anything that could be construed as criticism and then blaring out its policies have been...

Looking back to look forward

Saturday, 10 October 2020, 07:35 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

It is true that when the Partit Nazzjonalista lost the 2013 election there was a discomfort amongst the ordinary person that their interests had been set aside and dismissed as puerile and could not...

Students welcomed back to their schools

Friday, 9 October 2020, 07:28 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

By Wednesday coming week, all state school children will be back in their respective classrooms, back to getting an education they all deserve and in the best place where they can get it – by...

Worrying

Thursday, 8 October 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

A friend again drew my attention to how worrying the situation of an enormous number of animal species has become: they’re being exterminated: due to pollution, the destruction of their habitat,...

Invictus, Evictus, Convictus

Thursday, 8 October 2020, 06:59 Last update: about 7 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Take it from William Shakespeare: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts...

Abela’s problem

Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 07:05 Last update: about 7 years ago Peter Agius

This week the Nationalist Party renewed itself from the very top, with the election of Dr. Bernard Grech after an inspirational campaign founded on unity and renewal. It is unwritten code in...

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