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The Real aristocracy

Sunday, 13 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

As the citizens of Malta head for the beaches and enjoy their annual shut-down holidays, and as the roads get congested in some places and mercifully free in others, it would perhaps be useful to ponder on the ever-...

Urgent Priorities

Saturday, 12 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

The authorities seem to be waking up to the fact that children in Malta are being abused of in more ways than one. ...

The Mission Fund

Saturday, 12 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

I would appreciate if you can provide a little space in your newspaper, so that I can thank the Mission Fund for their generous offer in aid of the poor in Kenya....

Inter’s League title

Saturday, 12 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

M. Mifsud of Mosta (TMID, 9 August) asked me whether I am proud that the team I support, Inter, will be wearing the scudetto on their shirts this season....

Harshly Punished

Wednesday, 9 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

J. Camilleri of San Gwann claims to be an Inter supporter (TMID, 1 August). He writes that Juventus deserved a bigger punishment while Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina deserved less than they got....

A Mess in Mosta

Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

I honestly can’t think of words to describe the inefficiency of whoever is in charge of the Mosta Square project. ...

Relative Danger, stranger danger

Monday, 7 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

All those who write, be they journalists, opinion writers or even writers to letter pages in newspapers have a tendency to write more about what is wrong, than about what is being done right. ...

Shooting Ourselves in the foot

Monday, 7 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

The shenanigans that went on at the Galaxy Hotel in Sliema on Friday night were ample proof of claims that the behaviour of some students who come to Malta to learn English is causing problems for hotel residents....

Give Up, Madonna

Sunday, 6 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

The eternally irritating Madonna doesn’t seem to realise that she’s pushing 50, and that the time has come to change her act to something more suitable, or to ride off the stage and into the sunset ...

Playing With fire in a petrol station

Sunday, 6 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

At first it seems like there is a sense of a fatalistic deja vu in what is happening in Lebanon now. Once again, with memories of 1982 reawakened in our minds, we watch as Israel invades Lebanon as if it were its back garden,...

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