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Super One, have you forgotten your past?

Tuesday, 5 May 2020, 08:28 Last update: about 7 years ago Ivan Bartolo

They ridiculed us because we are organising shopping sprees for people, in a surreal moment in time where people are struggling to have a decent and clean income. They ridiculed us because we are...

COVID-19 and our sustainability

Sunday, 3 May 2020, 09:19 Last update: about 7 years ago Justyne Caruana

‘Nature does not operate in closed and separate compartments’ − Rachel Carson (American environmentalist)   The COVID-19 pandemic that is gripping the world is proof...

Daring to hope for the future on Worker's Day

Sunday, 3 May 2020, 08:17 Last update: about 7 years ago Timothy Alden

Throughout human history, we have faced the challenges and problems of inequality and its abuses. Subjugation of our fellow man has taken on every imaginable excuse to justify its existence. In the...

Worker’s Day: an opportunity to reflect

Friday, 1 May 2020, 08:37 Last update: about 7 years ago

The opening line of any book worth reading is usually very indicative of the character of its author and the general direction of the storyline. The same can be said for Malta's most important...

Opinion: Our first hundred days together - Robert Abela

Sunday, 26 April 2020, 10:15 Last update: about 7 years ago

This week marks the first hundred days of my service as Prime Minister. Together, with my Cabinet colleagues, these have been days of constant decisions. Although my administration inherited a...

Questioning policing institutions

Sunday, 26 April 2020, 09:30 Last update: about 7 years ago

These are interesting times to observe how the public questions institutions and how the resulting public consent fluctuates. Any surge in public support does not come cheaply and any miscalculation...

Psychological violence in environmental destruction

Sunday, 26 April 2020, 09:13 Last update: about 7 years ago Timothy Alden

Two years ago I had been invited to the AGM of BirdLife to partake in an environmental debate. Still extremely fresh in politics, I remember being a little shocked when I walked into the building and...

NCW reflections on the impact of COVID-19

Sunday, 26 April 2020, 08:55 Last update: about 7 years ago Mary Gaerty

As in nearly 200 other countries across the world, Malta was hit with an invisible enemy that has managed to place elderly and vulnerable people on lockdown, students following a semblance of online...

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