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Tweeting Democracy across the Arab world

Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Over the past few years, the political landscape of the Middle East was wholly transformed by the diffusion of social media across the region...

Smoke, Fire and cover-ups

Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Although last Sunday the PM found time to lecture us on the importance of ethics in politics (something many of his political bedfellows do not practise) and Minister Fenech told us in First magazine all about how he attended spiritual retreats...

Being In employment benefits the whole family

Monday, 14 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Presently in Malta, only 37.7% of the female population is in declared paid employment. From single mothers and young women who stopped studying once compulsory education was over...

No Rule of law at Air Malta

Monday, 14 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

The number of parliamentary questions (PQs) that have been fielded about the national airline and which have remained virtually without the decency of a reply are numerous. ...

Painful And shameful

Sunday, 13 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

As I listened to the Parliamentary debate on Wednesday, I shrank with shame. This was our House of Representatives....

When A policeman hits you

Sunday, 13 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

A man who hit a police officer has been given a suspended prison sentence. The comments-board beneath the report is awash with the views of fine upholders of the law, who think this absurd. Hitting a police office...

Prima Donnas get centre stage

Sunday, 13 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Surprise, surprise, I read that on a ‘chat show’ that supports the PN on TVM, our national station, Labour MP Adrian Vassallo attacked his leader Joseph Muscat accusing him of behaviour akin to “communism...

...on The Azure Window

Sunday, 13 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Although we Gozitans always refer to the place as It-Tieqa tad-Dwejra, this does not simply indicate that the natural fault is in Dwejra, but to distinguish it from another – not so popular – similar natural fault, ...

Mons. Michael Azzopardi And the origins of Id-Dar tal-Providenza

Sunday, 13 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I gladly accepted the invitation extended to me by Fr Martin Micallef, the present director of Id-Dar tal-Providenza in Siggiewi, to write another article about my uncle, the late Dun Mikiel who ...

Money Matters in politics

Sunday, 13 May 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The debate on how the funding of political parties is to be regulated was rekindled lately in the Maltese political scenario. This debate was revived recently when a Nationalist MP tabled a Private Member’s Bill ...

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