The Euro, wardens and social conscience
Friday, 19 May 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The past week or so, our newspapers were dominated by a few incidents that must be condemned by any law abiding citizen. ...
Friday Wisdom: Portable Everything
Friday, 19 May 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
Quality of life has improved in leaps and bounds when the human species invented easy and efficient means of mobility. ...
Other People’s hobbies
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
It’s been some years now since I last saw a hoopoe in the garden. Last week, while watering the honeysuckle, I found a kestrel, but I couldn’t admire it because it had its head blasted off. ...
PN’S Twin track approach
Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Anyone following the Nationalist media during the past few weeks will have picked up the homespun mantra that Labour claimed to accept the electorate’s verdict on EU membership out of convenience, that it was seriously considering pulling Malta out of the...
I Do, I do, I dooo
Monday, 15 May 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
So will Fabrizio sing this coming Saturday, and it seems the Maltese, with the third highest rate of marriage in the European Union, agree with him!...
It’s Time to stand together against nazism
Sunday, 14 May 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
I am in no doubt at all that the persons who committed this act of violence against my home and my family are connected with Malta’s nascent fascist and neo-Nazi movement....
A Unique opportunity
Sunday, 14 May 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 21 years ago
Malta Independent
The value of notes and coins in circulation as at last December amounted to slightly more than Lm520 million. On average, each one of us, from babies to centenarians, carries Lm1,300 in our wallets or under...
Kazantzakis, Dan Brown And morality
Sunday, 14 May 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Most writers are moral animals. Of course they are not moral in the sense that they lead exemplary lives, or that they advocate one moral system over another, although being a writer does not exclude these things. ...