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It’s not equality when you mark people out as different

Sunday, 16 July 2017, 10:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Labour Party has rebranded its LGBTI 'section' as Equality Labour, totally oblivious to the irony of creating and running what is effectively a sectional ghetto for people marked out as different,...

Coming out time

Sunday, 16 July 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

I do not know about you, but personally, I have been experiencing a sort of creeping revelation over the past months as Malta debated gays and lesbians in a sort of lopsided way. On the one hand,...

The key issue

Saturday, 15 July 2017, 09:29 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

The crucial vote has come and gone but the real battle still lies ahead for the Nationalist Party.  It has come out bruised and flustered and in serious need of a reformation before it scatters...

The perversion of democracy

Friday, 14 July 2017, 15:41 Last update: about 10 years ago Salvu Mallia

In his vlog, Salvu Mallia spoke about the "perversion of democracy" and spoke of the lack of the national interest. He also speaks about the PN's situation following the election....

Notebook

Thursday, 13 July 2017, 10:12 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

So same-sex marriage is now possible in Malta – not that it wasn’t before, given that civil unions were marriage by another name. But now I suppose the government has plucked up the...

Cleansing

Thursday, 13 July 2017, 07:47 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Among the challenges – let’s not call them problems – that strong economic growth brings with it, features public cleansing. Waste is increasing at a rate which might be greater than...

‘You are ridiculous’

Tuesday, 11 July 2017, 09:39 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

“You are ridiculous” and “friends are there to sometimes tell you uncomfortable truths” - both are bold statements made by Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European...

David Agius’s mental gymnastics

Tuesday, 11 July 2017, 08:47 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

David was always into sport – primarily basketball, if I remember correctly. He has, however, now dedicated considerable time to the practice of mental gymnastics. In Attard, in the area...

Immigration

Monday, 10 July 2017, 07:36 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

For some time immigration had departed centre stage but this summer it came back with a vengeance as a main problem... or better, crisis. About it there still persists a profound disagreement among EU...

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