The Malta Independent 29 May 2025, Thursday
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Unity is plural

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:37 Last update: about 9 years ago Ivan Grech Mintoff

Whenever politicians invite the nation to unite, they never actually mean "Let our nation unite." What they really mean is: "Come! Let us all unite... around me." It's all double talk - spin -...

Poem for Daphne

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:36 Last update: about 9 years ago

Written for my aunt, Daphne Caruana Galizia, one of the greatest and bravest investigative journalists in Malta, who was killed by a car bomb on Monday 16 October 2017. Her murder was an attempt to...

I wish I had her courage

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:31 Last update: about 9 years ago

Wrapped up in my thoughts, I stood before the Great Siege monument in Valletta, the place that has become a temporary shrine to Malta's top journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was assassinated by a...

A life-changing praise song

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:29 Last update: about 9 years ago

Some weeks ago, after a very tiring day at Mater Dei, going from ward to ward attending to the patients, relatives and staff's spiritual needs, I had the grace...

Gaia's revenge

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:24 Last update: about 9 years ago

This year has witnessed signs of the long-predicted global warming: a scorching summer in Europe; a series of catastrophic hurricanes in the Caribbean and in Texas; and melting...

Youths for Life - the youth parliament revisited

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 07:11 Last update: about 9 years ago

Firstly, we would like to congratulate the National Youth Council for representing young people in Malta for 25 years. It is crucial that the voice of young people is heard in society, and it is this...

Solo in a no-man's land- Daphne Caruana Galizia

Saturday, 28 October 2017, 11:06 Last update: about 9 years ago Patrick J O Brien

When Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb as she drove down a country road, Maltese society shook and the world zoomed in with shock. There is, throughout Malta, a genuine outpouring of...

Containing the fallout

Thursday, 26 October 2017, 11:18 Last update: about 9 years ago

A week and a half from the brutal killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, with no conclusions reached by the investigators and with all sorts of fallout both in Malta and outside Malta, it is...

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