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An Opportunity for hope to replace acrimony

Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

There were many protagonists during the recent referendum campaign but the ones that shone above the rest were the unknown elements...

The Osama Opening

Monday, 30 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The image, caught on home video, is a defining one: a hunched Osama bin Laden, in pathetic, lonely domesticity...

There’ll Be hell to pay

Sunday, 29 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Last week, I urged readers to take a good look at the people around them and reflect on their choices regarding the divorce referendum and what these choices tell them about these people and about the issue itself. And I c...

Computer Says ‘No’

Sunday, 29 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I can’t help it. I really have tried to take them seriously, but it’s no use....

No, It isn’t over

Sunday, 29 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Some people say they’re thankful the whole divorce thing is over, whichever way the vote goes. But I say that it’s far from over, not by a long shot. This thing is going to run. And run. And run. Galizia...

Women Drivers, divorce and sustainability

Sunday, 29 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Scratching around for a topic on this island, obsessed with whether we should introduce divorce or not, was not easy. Hopefully, we shall have moved on this week, but somehow I doubt it....

Egypt’s Second grassroots resurgence

Sunday, 29 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Egyptian people still have to overturn an overbearing force that has marginalised them for generations: top-down government control of budgets and local development. Egypt’s central government administration ...

A Family at odds with itself

Sunday, 29 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Nine years ago, as a private citizen, I visited the President of Malta to voice my concerns at the way our society was going. In particular I implored him...

Dedicated To all Inter fans

Sunday, 29 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Over the past few weeks I’ve written solely about divorce – concentrating mostly on people’s lives, the insensitive and oppressive way that the “No” camp imposed its values on others, and the ...

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