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‘The prisoners are my children and I love them so much’

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 09:08 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

‘I am like any other mother who comforts her children. I want my heart to grow so that I can love them even more’.  – Sr Adele. Last Saturday during my radio show on 103...

Saving Maltese tourism, vaccine passport now

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 09:06 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

It has often been said that a crisis brings out the true nature of people. I don’t know how much of that is true, but reading Alfred Sant’s proposal to do away with intellectual property...

Reputation

Monday, 1 March 2021, 07:56 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

There do remain things to be done, but independently of what those who prefer to paint it all black say, matters have improved quite substantially. It has been obvious that Malta’s international...

Bernard Grech and the Common Good

Sunday, 28 February 2021, 10:38 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Philosophy in Maltese is not a usual occurrence. Joe Friggieri, Mark Montebello OP, and Anton Sammut, say, have written a few books; I did my bit with the late Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici (who sadly...

Lingering doubts on return to normal

Sunday, 28 February 2021, 09:29 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The more Robert Abela brags that “the institutions are working” the longer doubts linger on. In a situation of normalcy, which we have a right to, there is no room for a Prime Minister...

Yapping at his heels

Sunday, 28 February 2021, 08:28 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

If I could direct a cartoon artist for today’s issue, I would tell him to draw Prime Minister Robert Abela in all his monumental build surrounded by a horde of attacking dogs yapping at his...

Stitched up

Saturday, 27 February 2021, 07:25 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

One day you arrive home and you find that the house is flooded by a water leak.  Some pipe burst and water is flowing out into the kitchen and around the house and all the furniture is getting...

Not one giant, but two

Friday, 26 February 2021, 07:06 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

  It does not take you much time taking care of the portfolio of Research and Innovation to realise that University is indeed a giant, by our standards, in this field.  Over time it has...

The social and the environmental

Thursday, 25 February 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

European socialists are doing the right thing – and I am fully aligned with what they’re stating – when they insist on the priority of an environmental policy that will contain...

Kites and red herrings

Thursday, 25 February 2021, 07:36 Last update: about 6 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

“Kite flying” is a strategy used in politics to test the people’s reaction to a particular proposal or issue: you broach a proposal, without too much commitment, and see what...

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