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Coming out, publicly – lgbtiqX

Sunday, 11 November 2018, 08:08 Last update: about 9 years ago Ivan Grech Mintoff

Free speech also counts for speech that you hate and not just for speech that you like. Freedom of choice exists for those who want to make hard choices and not just those who take the easy way....

Let her have it

Saturday, 10 November 2018, 09:32 Last update: about 9 years ago

There is a new, or perhaps not so new, breed of men out there.  These men are not young carefree studs or playboys (as we used to call them).  Rather, they're older.  They...

Tie a pink ribbon

Thursday, 8 November 2018, 16:44 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

October is over. It is known as the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, also known as 'Pink October', and it is appropriate that not just during that month but throughout the whole year, we need...

A fruitful tomorrow

Wednesday, 7 November 2018, 15:21 Last update: about 9 years ago

The country’s annual budget should mean much more to us than just a yearly picture of how the government has been spending its money and how it intends to distribute its finances for the coming...

Budget: Economic vision or lack of it

Sunday, 4 November 2018, 09:37 Last update: about 9 years ago

The much-awaited budget speech was delivered last week. However, the much more awaited solutions to the serious challenges our country is facing have not been forthcoming. The budget had a number...

A state of denial does not erase success

Sunday, 4 November 2018, 09:36 Last update: about 9 years ago Justyne Caruana

“Living in a state of denial can only be a useful defence mechanism for some until it uncovers their weakness. It does not change reality for anyone else, except for the few who believe in...

Rough charabanc ride

Sunday, 4 November 2018, 09:35 Last update: about 9 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Peppi Azzopardi is a trapper who has caught the songbird that sings the song of truth, and two things have happened to him. One, he cannot understand why the others cannot hear the song the bird is...

Growing a future for farmers

Sunday, 4 November 2018, 09:03 Last update: about 9 years ago Timothy Alden

Malcolm Borg speaking about the crisis facing farming in our country left an impression on me.  Borg has set up Għaqda Bdiewa Attivi, an NGO for Maltese farmers, and is trying to prevent...

Imperial echoes

Sunday, 4 November 2018, 08:19 Last update: about 9 years ago Michael Asciak

The farce that is now unfolding before our very eyes in the UK regarding the decision of the government, following a public referendum, to leave the EU clearly shows the decision to leave to be...

Russia and International Information Security

Saturday, 3 November 2018, 10:56 Last update: about 9 years ago

As many readers might have noted, the rampant Western anti-Russia campaign shows no signs of fading.  More and more groundless assertions against our country in the vein of the notorious...

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