The Passage of the ford
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
We have all read reams of comments on last Saturday’s referendum result, but most seem to have translated the numbers on to the partisan political level while there has...
Honour The people’s wishes
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
Members of Parliament are not elected to the House of Representatives to serve their conscience. They are there to serve the people who elected them. Now that the majority of us have vo...
J’accuse : Sophistry, Protagoras & San Ċipress
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
The return of summer has meant the return of the time-slot dedicated to listening to podcasts at a leisurely pace while lapping up the sun on a beach. ...
They Still don’t get it
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
We have been through this scenario before. One side claiming “the media was against us”; stamping its feet, throwing tantrums, going on the defensive and wailing that “our message was manipulated”. It all sounds depressingly familiar....
Labour’s Special weapon
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Deborah Schembri has confirmed on Xarabank that she will be standing for election on the Labour ticket in 2013. Joseph Muscat was right to snap her up. He’ll probably field her on two of these dist...
Powerful Institutions losing their grip
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
Well, the babaw tactics did not work and I was as surprised as many other people, especially since the result of last weekend’s referendum goes beyond divorce. ...
When Crime should never sleep
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Last week’s arrest of Serbian General Ratko Mladic signals an important development for the slow healing process of the countless victims of the bloodiest conflict on European soil since World War II. ...
First Blood to the PL
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Many well-known and highly placed people during this last week have expressed surprise that the Yes vote carried the Divorce Referendum. ...
Convent Malta: Out in a flurry
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Out went, in a flurry, Convent Malta, thank goodness. That was the one single message that ran through my mi...
The Church’s Renaissance: the need to tackle clerical abuse
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Reacting to the momentous result of the 28 May referendum in favour of the introduction of divorce legislation, Monsignor Anton Gouder, the Church’s Pro Vicar General (one of the key architects of the Maltese Church’s r...