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Friday Wisdom: French Lessons

Friday, 31 March 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

France is a nation afraid and divided. What has been hidden underneath the surface for several decades suddenly erupted in near volcanic terms over the last 12 months. This is forcing on the French to conduct a...

Fertility Cults in the information age

Thursday, 30 March 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Thousands of years after the building of the temples at Hagar Qim and Tarxien, we appear to be intent on creating yet another fertility cult, as if to prove that we are barely out of the Stone Age, ...

Taking Stock?!

Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

A couple of weeks ago the Nationalist Party suffered a loss, which to the public’s perception may be one of the worst losses. This being mainly because this round of local council elections has been almost always a...

Educational Time bomb

Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

Everyone and his aunt had something to say about the industrial action organised by the Malta Union of Teachers last Thursday. This fact alone indicates that the primary objective of the MUT, drawing public attention...

Why It’s time for a change

Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The Nationalist Party does not seem to have learnt its lesson from its previous local election defeats, as well as from its Euro Parliamentary election crash....

Intellectual Property rights

Monday, 27 March 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

It is worth noting that the protection of intellectual property rights is not something that was introduced in Malta recently....

Single Parent bashing

Monday, 27 March 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

There are few areas, except perhaps for the irregular immigrants issue, which raise many people’s ire, prejudice and more as much as the single parents explosion, or single parents as our Minglish labels them. ...

Young Enterprise Vs young politics

Sunday, 26 March 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

It is almost a daily struggle for me to stay positive about the political and economic direction of this country. ...

Radio Days

Sunday, 26 March 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

As far as national broadcasting goes, I ended up running its radio programming section in the mid-1980s when I could no longer take the hopelessness and arrogance of certain instructions being thrown at us in the news ...

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