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The Rent law reform

Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

The Housing Authority chairman is taking time off her heavy workload to write in every newspaper which will carry her writing that AD wants to introduce taxes. She sounds remarkably like the Labour Party she so often attacks....

Wilton Park

Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Wilton Park is one of the world’s leading institutions for in-depth discussion of policy challenges. ...

The Legacy of the 1960s

Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In the past few months, among other things, I have been involved in a project to publish a second edition of Silg fuq Kemmuna – a rather long novel which first appeared in the early 1980s....

The Taxing of empty homes

Monday, 11 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Alternattiva Demokratika are busy encouraging people to sign up for a referendum which many do not understand. ...

Two Bangs

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

My earliest childhood memories go back to that Maundy Thursday of 1955 when an explosion at the fireworks factory of St Philip’s Band Club in my village Zebbug claimed the lives of four young men. ...

Gone To the dogs

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

What? Summer? Here already? How on earth can you tell? Hang on... I know. By all the shark-sighting hoaxes, that’s how....

Life And death in Zebbug and London

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It seems all the vacuous debates we have had over the last few weeks, prompted partly by the Children’s Commissioners very silly and inconsiderate remarks on IVF, have now...

God Has nothing to do with it

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

A fireworks factory blows up, killing two men and critically injuring others, one of who is severely burned, and everyone speaks as though it were an act of God. ...

Deaf To defeat

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

When someone passed the plain brown envelope to me in the dead of night, I could not wait to get home to open it and read what was in it. Walking at a brisk pace, my mind was teeming with ...

Here We go – golfing again...

Sunday, 10 July 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As I still spend every Thursday evening in summer playing soccer with a group of friends – mostly in my age bracket – who have been at it for more than 30 ...

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