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Thursday, 17 February 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The short-sighted inanity of Joseph Muscat’s sole pronouncement on the crisis in North Africa has been highlighted by the arrival in Lampedusa of 6,000 people fleeing from the upheaval in Tunisia...

Conservatives Cautious on 2012 pick

Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Conservatives are fired up to defeat President Barack Obama. Now the hard part: Finding their candidate...

Tiger Mothers or elephant mothers?

Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Many years ago, my wife and I were driving somewhere with our three young daughters in the back, when one of them suddenly asked: “Would you rather that we were clever or that we were happy?”...

Debunking The myth of a Muslim demographic threat in the West

Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The Pew Centre on Religion and Public Life recently released a comprehensive study of Muslim populations around the world that should allay fears among many of an impending global Muslim takeover and debunk widely-held beliefs about Muslims...

Noxious Smells and ‘stinking’ campaigns

Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The last few days were characterised by two significant developments.One of them was the way the government allowed the noxious smells issue at Hexagon House to run riot either due to incompetence or even worse...

China’s Shrinking trade surplus

Monday, 14 February 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

China, however, refused to accept the blame and declined repeated US demands to undertake a large revaluation...

Misinterpretations Of tourism happenings

Monday, 14 February 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

If I did not know Robert Arrigo well and if he was not so involved in the tourism industry, I would have classified this article, at best, as ill-informed...

Let’s Stop passing the buck

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

I’m not going to join the divorce movement in its lamentations about the possibility there won’t be a referendum on divorce. Right from the word go, I was against having a referendum on divorce....

Divorce à La PN

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

The position adopted by the Nationalist Party on the introduction of divorce legislation is another instance where political expedience takes precedence over the national interest....

J’accuse: Fight For your right (to party)

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

So the Rais is definitely out and has rushed off to a caravanserai off Sharm el-Sheikh. Thirty years have passed since Sadat’s assassination (and Mubarak’s rise to power), 59 ...

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