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Fixing A hole

Sunday, 25 July 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

You don’t play the fool by calling a national referendum to “let the people decide” on the ways and means of helping a minority of citizens with special needs. You just legislate resolutely ...

The Youth Local Councils: An added value to their community

Sunday, 25 July 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Youth Local Councils project, organised for the first time by the Secretariat for Youth and Sport in collaboration with the National Youth Council, proved to be a resou...

Gonzi Gets Berlusconi’s curse

Sunday, 25 July 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

For a long time, Silvio Berlusconi based his political appeal on reassurance that Italy was solving its problems, that it was better than so many other countries a...

Numbers And noises

Sunday, 25 July 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

A survey published by Malta Today last Sunday indicates that 59 per cent of electors are in favour of divorce legislation, or let us say, not against it. This perce...

J’accuse: Intemperate Winds

Sunday, 25 July 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

It’s a windy Sunday, or at least it’s supposed to be. That’s if the weatherman got his calculations right and a strong wind should have been blowing across the island since last night acting as a downright spoiler...

Direct Line to God

Sunday, 25 July 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As I predicted a couple of weeks ago the divorce issue is going to run and run. I missed last week’s local papers ...

Little Things that drive me crazy

Sunday, 25 July 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

It may be because of the heat.It seems to me that the state of affairs on our roads, when it comes to safety and respect for other drivers and pedestrians, has never been so bad....

Cynical Me

Sunday, 25 July 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

Do we have a shadow government? In posing this question, I use ‘shadow’ not in the sense of shadow cabinet or shadow minister to explain the...

Challenge Of the first order

Sunday, 25 July 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

As we watch history digesting the future, we rely on probabilities rather than certainties. And while ...

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