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A longer life

Monday, 27 February 2023, 07:58 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

On average, our life has been extended from what it was say fifty years ago – or even twenty. The improvement in living conditions as well perhaps the absence of wars (at least up to now) in the...

Stealing a can of tuna

Sunday, 26 February 2023, 09:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Mary Muscat

It’s the week where the United Nations commemorated the World Day of Social Justice and spoke of the frayed social contract unleashed by increased prices of commodities, world conflict, weak...

The welfare of farm animals

Sunday, 26 February 2023, 07:58 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The European Court of Auditors, in 2018, concluded an investigation into animal welfare in the European Union. In its report, entitled Animal Welfare in the EU: closing the gap between ambitious goals...

Keeping up with the live blogs

Sunday, 26 February 2023, 07:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

As I begin to write this article, the bells peal for noon. Everywhere in the world, the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is being commemorated. The families of those who have...

Robert’s secrets

Sunday, 26 February 2023, 06:57 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Cassar

Truth telling is not a reflex of this government. One headline after another reveals the pitiful state to which we’ve been reduced - begging government to tell us the facts. Each headline...

At the Security Council

Thursday, 23 February 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

Malta’s membership of the UN Security Council should be beneficial both to our country as well, I would like to think, to the Council itself. For Malta it should be a boost since it will...

Extinction or ‘a peace that is no peace’

Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 08:19 Last update: about 4 years ago Evarist Bartolo

With Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cruel war on Ukraine in its eighth month, film director Edward Berger came out with the first German adaptation of the 1928 novel ‘All Quiet on the...

Fragmentation

Monday, 20 February 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

That the European single market could become fragmented is a possible danger that must be guarded against, for otherwise the European project would disintegrate. This is what is presently being...

Another report, another deferral

Sunday, 19 February 2023, 09:25 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Aquilina

A public consultation meeting on media reform took place on 15 February 2023 by a Prime Minister appointed committee to advise him on media reform. Unable to attend, I still want to express publicly...

A stitch in time

Sunday, 19 February 2023, 08:57 Last update: about 4 years ago Alicia Bugeja Said

There’s an old saying in English that goes: “A stitch in time saves nine”. Earlier this week, we announced another investment of €1m that will further mitigate the fuel expenses...

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