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Equal access

Wednesday, 25 March 2020, 08:08 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I caught up with Dr Claire Azzopardi Lane who heads the Department of Disability Studies at the Faculty for Social Wellbeing. Her research interests focus on the sexuality of persons with disability,...

Vote distancing

Monday, 23 March 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

This week it is planned that the European Parliament will be voting in plenary but at a distance. MEPs are expected as much as possible not to travel and to vote while remaining in their own country....

Love in the time of Corona

Sunday, 22 March 2020, 11:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Do you remember Schindler’s List and similar stories of people who helped the Jews escape the crazy and horrifying hunts during the Second World War? Despite regime propaganda that the superior...

Coronavirus fallout: the need to protect all jobs

Sunday, 22 March 2020, 10:15 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Government has announced its financial package which it described as being a €1.8 billion stimulus package. What is in it for a zero-hours contract worker, the casual worker, the freelance...

To wander lonely as a cloud...

Sunday, 22 March 2020, 10:13 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

I am sure that by today most people have come to their senses and finally realised that the coronavirus malaise is real, is wreaking havoc on people, cities, nations and economies everywhere, and only...

Chronicles of a hamster in the time of corona

Sunday, 22 March 2020, 09:08 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

I am the youngest of 5 children and had parents old enough – or so I thought – to be my grandparents. You’d think I was spoilt rotten but nothing of the sort. When I was about seven...

Other people’s trials

Sunday, 22 March 2020, 08:07 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

I cannot get over the scenes from Bergamo in Italy. A town I always intended to visit but never got round to do it, though I have been to neighbour Brescia, polenta and all that. The scenes of...

Not just life

Saturday, 21 March 2020, 07:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

Taking stock of the astounding mortality rate by coronavirus in Italy is really heartbreaking.  As of Wednesday, the virus had killed 2,978 across Italy with the majority in Lombardy region, when...

We will weather the storm

Friday, 20 March 2020, 08:07 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

Today week was the first day when the doors of all schools and eduction institutions remained shut. On Wednesday, we announced that closure of schools is now extended until at least the end of...

Coronavirus and policy quandaries

Thursday, 19 March 2020, 09:56 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Briguglio

The Coronavirus experience presents policymakers with various quandaries on how to best manage risks. In policymaking, every decision has consequences which may also include unintended ones. Policy...

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