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Friday Wisdom: A World of a difference

Friday, 16 September 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

Every weekday lunchtime I devour a sandwich while keeping at my professional work. ...

Gog And Magog: in the land of the beasts

Thursday, 15 September 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

I had known that the medieval Arabs despised the white people of Europe with disgusted condescension far greater than that felt by the white people of Europe, including the brown Maltese, for Arabs today. ...

Spaghetti Western

Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

There was a time when Nationalist MPs and columnists used to find it very hard to criticise their own party publicly. ...

SOLVIT For you @ Lm0

Monday, 12 September 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Governments of the Member States of the European Union have regularly reminded their respective nationals about the new opportunities...

The Half family

Monday, 12 September 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Malta, and to a much lesser extent Gozo, are slowly filling up with half families. We have gone from the huge Maltese extended family with an average of four children and a riot of cousins,...

He Who pays the Piper

Sunday, 11 September 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I’m tired of all this fuss and bother about Sea Malta, and I’m quite sure that most of you are, too. Whether you have been able to work up enough interest to find out what exactly is going on, ...

We Don’t need no education

Sunday, 11 September 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

When I was a sociology graduate student at University of Toronto in the mid-1980s, the conservative government’s deep budget cuts were hitting hard. A cartoon on my department’s bullettin board said it all. ...

350 Or 35 words?

Sunday, 11 September 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

A fellow yummy mummy and beach babe recently complained that on the whole, the news is depressingly negative, particularly those articles by columnists. There might be reasons for this. ...

Our International obligations

Sunday, 11 September 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In all this talk of race and racism, many people seem to be overlooking one basic fact. Regardless of our individual views of the illegal immigrant phenomenon – whether we want these people here or not, ...

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