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Sacrilege

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Over the past months, I have often considered what a limited view we have of the paedophilia and general child abuse problem in the Church....

Stability At the cost of oppression

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Watching the Egyptian protests in the wake of what happened in Tunisia does make the local battibekk on divorce tame journalistic fodder. Although sympathy is now with the oppressed populace, ...

The Weakest of arguments for divorce: marriage

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

“Like everyone else, I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching and I’ve been noticing the realities around me. I see people my age, and younger, whose marriages have failed, sometimes ...

A Wake-up call – 2020 national reform programme

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

At the request of the European Commission, Malta – along with other EU member states – is in the process of preparing a 10-year national reform programme (NRP) to plan...

J’accuse: Memor Et Fidelis

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Last Thursday I flew to Malta from Brussels on an Air Malta flight. Having braved the trials and tribulations of the Brussels ring and having risked being stuck ...

Divorced From reality

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

You know a politician is in trouble when he threatens to resign over an issue and people shrug and call his bluff: “Ok, go ahead...”...

Parliamentarians’ Salary – why the fuss?

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The only real reasons that justify the outcry at the wage increase our parliamentarians have given themselves are the timing and the way the public came to know about it....

To All those who suffer in silence

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Not all those who die have their face printed on the front page of a newspaper. Neither do they have their funerals shown live on television or have programme producers changing their schedule to provide a two-hour tear-jerker. ...

A Moment In Time - A ‘Stuke’ strikes

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Few people on these islands, of what-ever political colour or creed, would dare trust Austin Gatt with ultimately doing a good job with the projected transformation ...

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