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Riots

Thursday, 6 July 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

The recent riots in France were perhaps the most damaging in a country where over the years, riots and vigorous street protests are accepted as part of the “normal” scenario that defines...

Newspaper sales

Monday, 3 July 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

Over the last months and years, market conditions for the sale of newspapers have not changed at all. Sales have continued to dip. Shops that previously used to sell big quantities of newspapers have...

Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine

Sunday, 2 July 2023, 08:57 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Aquilina

The conflict in Ukraine raises several issues, internationally and locally. First, it concerns a threat to freedom of expression not only in Russia vis-à-vis the press who cannot hear the...

Pull your socks up

Sunday, 2 July 2023, 08:54 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Cassar

Rebekah Borg is the Opposition’s spokesperson for the Lands Authority.  She’s a PN MP.  But you’d think she was Labour, listening to her car-crash interview with Andrew...

The decline of the Church

Sunday, 2 July 2023, 08:51 Last update: about 4 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Since the French Revolution, Europe has experienced a slow but steady de-Christianisation that led leading intellectuals to claim that once God is dead everything is permitted.  But this is not...

The abortion debate: just the beginning

Sunday, 2 July 2023, 08:50 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The approval of Bill 28 is not the end of the abortion debate. It is just the beginning. Maybe, the end of the beginning! The original proposals of Bill 28 were promising, even if they were no big...

The flimsy basis of unanimity

Sunday, 2 July 2023, 08:49 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

I have come to distrust anything that says it was reached unanimously and so, without entering into the details, I am distrusting the so-called Abortion Clause approved by the House of Representatives...

An eventful summer for students

Friday, 30 June 2023, 08:09 Last update: about 4 years ago Owen Bonnici

Education extends beyond textbooks and classrooms, and the Heritage Malta Student Passport Summer Programme recognizes this by offering a unique opportunity for students to broaden their horizons and...

Unintended consequences

Thursday, 29 June 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

In the organization and implementation of any project that involves many people and resources, even when aims are precise and have been fully agreed, the possibility remains of unplanned and...

Government’s tweaked abortion law

Monday, 26 June 2023, 08:06 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Aquilina

On Friday 23 June 2023, after a seven month hiatus, government published its amendments to its own abortion decriminalization bill (Bill No. 28 of 21 November 2022). To prohibit outright any criticism...

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