The Christmas message that could have been
Sunday, 29 December 2019, 10:00
Last update: about 8 years ago
Mark Josef Rapa
In the 15-minute sermon Bishop Grech read out, he spoke about the open wounds of society and the bandages that cover them. Christ then treats these injuries with his love. It is a beautiful allegory,...
A decade of shit
Sunday, 29 December 2019, 09:00
Last update: about 8 years ago
Victor Calleja
This is the last Sunday of the year 2019. A new decade descends on us and we are ending the current decade with a horrific taste in our mouth: blood, spattered and left to flow, is the symbol that...
Fake serenity, in your face
Sunday, 29 December 2019, 08:30
Last update: about 8 years ago
Noel Grima
When last February a video surfaced showing a rather disheveled Michelle Muscat prancing about with a champagne bottle in her hand while her husband jumped around like a reveler in a ‘ marċ...
Make change happen
Saturday, 28 December 2019, 09:54
Last update: about 8 years ago
Rachel Borg
Many things are still shrouded in secrecy, hidden from the light. The truth, though, has a life and a force of its own, which more often than not, will emerge and become known. As we...
#culture19
Friday, 27 December 2019, 09:04
Last update: about 8 years ago
Owen Bonnici
2019 was a year during which we continued work on the fulfilment of a number of important reforms in both the justice sector, as well as culture. It is impossible to name all, but some...
Secular Europe
Thursday, 26 December 2019, 08:00
Last update: about 8 years ago
Alfred Sant
It is a mystery how right through Europe, Xmas Day has remained a prized holiday. And this after the continent became flagrantly secularised. Now, there hardly is any other holiday with a significance...
Whom to believe?
Monday, 23 December 2019, 07:52
Last update: about 8 years ago
Alfred Sant
Morally, the most difficult moments in political life do not come when you have to respond to the question – whom to back? Such a question just requires a reply which (if it is going to be...
And so this is Christmas
Sunday, 22 December 2019, 11:00
Last update: about 8 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
It is Christmas. Should we talk about Joseph Muscat? When three weeks ago I wrote an article called “The Rise and the Fall”, a reader left an interesting comment beneath the online...
Public land: private profits
Sunday, 22 December 2019, 10:23
Last update: about 8 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
634 jf Public Land: private profits Carmel Cacopardo The taking up of public land by catering establishments to extend their commercial activity beyond the...
Ma per carità
Sunday, 22 December 2019, 10:11
Last update: about 8 years ago
Mark Josef Rapa
As I sit at my desk trying to keep up with what has been going on in court and attempting (sometimes, without much success) to make sense of it, I find myself wondering in disbelief, asking: Who do...