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J’accuse: The Secret of comedy

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Sometimes the difference between the deadly serious and the irreverently humorous is narrower than the proverbial fine line. Often it takes that “banana moment” when the marching soldier...

Ode To joy on the buses

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

A short trip to Liverpool, where a lifelong wish to do the Beatles Trail was finally realised, gave me the opportunity to go on an Arriva bus on the way to another famous shrine associated with this great port city – Anfield. ...

The Great Greek teetering act

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As the huffing, puffing and wheezing brought on by the divorce dilemma subsides, the country may now wish to turn its attention to more pressing matters that surround us. Although the riotous assemblies in Syntagma Square ...

Between The devil and the desert

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

I came across a quote attributed to the Financial Times recently and it went like this. “Is it really comforting that parties lose their members, abandon their ideas, become disengaged from a broader social movement, motMuscat...

What’s Happening at White Rocks?

Sunday, 3 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Last year, the government ceremoniously announced what it said was a €200 million project that would change the face of sport in Maltese. ...

Youth, The future of co-operative enterprise

Saturday, 2 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Co-operatives around the world play an important part of the economical game, contributing important portions of various countries’ GDPs...

Unbelievable

Friday, 1 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I’m struggling to believe that in our society, particularly in this century, we are still witnesses to acts of cruelty to animals. I find it too hard to believe that while it’s not difficult to find a house with a dog, a cat, a bird, or what have you...

Get Off the fence

Friday, 1 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Two weekends ago we had the Nationalist Party’s general council meeting. It’s a meeting and an event intended for public consumption, as a way forward through analysing the present without forgetting the roots of the party...

Cutting The fog: multiculturalism, religion and the common good

Thursday, 30 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The death of “multiculturalism” has been proclaimed repeatedly recently, the idea pronounced with a big “M” as if we were talking of something tangible around which there is consensus...

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