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 ...