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A Partisan twist

Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

It was almost a year ago that my colleague Carmelo Abela and I wrote to the chairperson of the House of Representatives Social Affairs Committee....

Poverty You can smell

Monday, 3 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

You can’t help but feel sorry for many of our schoolchildren and students. We have one of the most intense, in fact over intense, schooling systems in Europe....

Militant And relevant

Sunday, 2 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

It is almost tragic that media domination in the hands of the PN, and the one dimensional thinking of some powers in the GWU, have allowed the contest for the most senior posts of the union’s hierarchy being held ...

Vulgarian Taxation

Sunday, 2 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang is the movie I most identify my childhood with. Its mixture of fantasy, immortal melodies, light romance and innocent comedy left a lasting impression on me – ...

A Moment In Time: Tour trials and tribulations

Sunday, 2 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I have never been one to be shepherded around places, preferring to go on my own and exploring at my own leisurely pace, and with as little knowledge as possible to make on-the-spot discoveries all the...

’Twixt Wickedness and waffle

Sunday, 2 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I am writing this piece on behalf of at least half the educated people of these tiny islands who cannot bear to watch, hear or read any more nasty or self-righteous waffle about the illegal immigrants issue....

Malta, A remote town in Norway and other points

Sunday, 2 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Reportedly, at the local press meeting Ryanair said it had recently started a route to some remote Norwegian town nobody has heard of and sold almost 600,000 seats (thus 300,000 returns) in just eight ...

The Perilous path to democracy

Sunday, 2 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It was the fashionable stance to take to be against the war in Iraq, and now, obviously, it is the fashionable stance to take to be for the withdrawal of troops and a summary end to occupation. ...

Look Before you leap

Sunday, 2 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

Politicians on both sides of the political divide will soon find themselves up to their neck in the political fray, as Parliament resumes its work after the summer recess. ...

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