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Is It really the media’s fault?

Sunday, 18 April 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Like a politician who keeps stumbling from one gaffe to another because of bad advice, the Maltese Church has realised, too late, that it has a huge PR problem on its hands. This e...

J’accuse: Pompeii Revisited

Sunday, 18 April 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The dastardly cloud of volcanic ash has spread across northern Europe at the speed of an Internet virus. ...

Lou Bondi And the BA

Sunday, 18 April 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Lou Bondi does not need me to defend him. He is quite capable of fighting his own battles, and he wins most of them on his own.But I must say that, like him, ...

We Are falling behind…

Sunday, 18 April 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

We were overjoyed when Malta was placed fifth in the health league table of the European Union. The Health Department, justifiably, took the credit and we prided ourselves for leading in the health sector....

The Forgotten plight of Palestinian Christians

Sunday, 18 April 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Christians around the world have just finished celebrating the Easter holiday – and thousands did so by making the annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem (where the Church of Holy Sepulchre is one of Christianity’s most revered sites). ...

Search Among the minnows

Sunday, 18 April 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Desperate and daring, I have searched the fellow minnows of Europe to play a little mental game of many ifs and no fewer buts. Would they, or would they not have been so profligate with the public purse? ...

Why Do Jews succeed?

Saturday, 17 April 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In recent decades, economists have been struggling to make use of the concept of human capital, often ...

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