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Going it alone

Sunday, 26 April 2015, 10:01 Last update: about 12 years ago Marie Benoît

From time to time I am asked, usually by younger widows, for advice on bringing up children as a single parent. I don't like giving advice. Every single situation involves different personalities and...

The Summit of Shame

Sunday, 26 April 2015, 10:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Thursday's EU Heads of Government Summit was a summit of shame. Through its conclusions, the European Council showed once more that, collectively, it lacks the moral spine to address the xenophobic...

A world apart

Saturday, 25 April 2015, 08:26 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

The truth is slowly coming to the surface.   Each corpse of child, man or woman that is lifted from the sea and every mental image of a sunken ship with 300 bodies locked in the hold, now...

Colonial arrogance

Friday, 24 April 2015, 17:27 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The pre-summit meeting held in Brussels, among the Prime Minister of Italy, Renzi, the German Chancellor Merkel, Hollande of France and Cameron of Britain smacks of colonial arrogance. They met to...

It’s not your party

Friday, 24 April 2015, 08:44 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

 The tragedy which has engulfed the Mediterranean has left many people jolted and dumbstruck. After several tragedies on a smaller scale, it took this one to draw the attention of the entire...

There should be no doubt that Oskar Groening’s trial is necessary

Thursday, 23 April 2015, 07:58 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Oskar Groening was 21 when he worked in the death camp at Auschwitz. He wasn’t a guard or directly involved in the murders, but he knew what was going on and by staying at his job there he was a...

Simon and the mocking game

Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 08:08 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

As I anchored a simulcast involving TVM and Radju Malta (Ghandi xi Nghid) on Saturday morning during the Local Council elections counting process it was fascinating to note how people in Malta still...

Everyone’s a winner

Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 09:23 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

Election fever is now over. During this round of local council elections, character assassination and mud-slinging featured prominently once more. This is not helping our political class earn...

A sweet defeat for the PN

Monday, 20 April 2015, 09:27 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

I can’t remember any other time when a defeat was welcomed with such enthusiasm, perhaps even triumph. The Labour Party made history by becoming the first government to win a local council...

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