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Is there pleasure in inflicting pain?

Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 08:04 Last update: about 12 years ago Alison Bezzina

Unless you’ve been living under this little rock instead of on it, you probably know that there’s no love lost between the pro hunting lobby and me.  The truth is however, that there...

We can do something about this

Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 07:54 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Dear Leah,   I write this column as the news spread like wildfire that you have passed to a better life.  No parent should be burying their child, particularly after having seen...

Faster heart beat during the Holy Week

Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 09:14 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

On the coming 11 April half of the electorate, including for the very first time 16- year olds in Malta and Gozo, is called to vote in thirty-four local councils’ elections. Half of the...

ISIS

Monday, 30 March 2015, 12:20 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

Organizations like ISIS and ISIL have been in existence for quite some time, but very few question their true origins. Today, these two organizations stand for the same ideal and are one and the same...

The crash

Monday, 30 March 2015, 08:01 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Lufthansa? German Lufthansa? Crashed? Utter disbelief. Numbing shock.  Still not believable.  Seek...

John Dalli: the time has come to take him by the horns

Sunday, 29 March 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The seemingly ubiquitous John Dalli has been allowed to run riot, doing pretty much as he pleases, in Malta and Libya and heaven knows where else under the guise of various companies, for years. It...

The end of an uncomfortable cohabitation

Sunday, 29 March 2015, 10:48 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

We sat and waited for it to come last Wednesday, right up to 11.15pm, but it was not to be. For nine whole hours, Censu Galea as Chairman of Committee (and Deputy Speaker), Edward Scicluna and...

11 April: The empowerment of civil society

Sunday, 29 March 2015, 10:40 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

This first abrogative referendum campaign is about much more than birds. It is about the empowerment of civil society in Malta. Yet those who oppose the abrogative referendum have opted to sow fear....

Are you a hamallu?

Sunday, 29 March 2015, 10:37 Last update: about 12 years ago Jenny Pullicino Orlando

I’ve had a think about the words ‘hamallu’ and ‘tal-pepe’ over the past week; I even googled them. For lack of an appropriate etymology of the words, I stand to be...

Neither awkward nor strange

Sunday, 29 March 2015, 10:28 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

Initially I thought I would be finding it awkward or possibly strange in my intent of voting for the opposite of what the two main political leaders on the Island, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and...

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