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‘Am I bovvered?’

Sunday, 13 May 2018, 08:13 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

The mass rallying of people chanting “Joseph Joseph” at the Mayday mass meeting in Valletta is anything short of terrifying. On Facebook, one could see photos of youths and young children...

It's easy to complain

Sunday, 13 May 2018, 08:12 Last update: about 10 years ago

For all those looking for a better tomorrow, here comes the hardest part. For all those who know things can be better, that standards can be higher, that the country can be healthier, fairer and more...

A question to those advocating the IVF amendments

Sunday, 13 May 2018, 08:11 Last update: about 10 years ago

At what stage in the development of life in the womb, is the entity a human person? What is your view on the subject? Because this impinges significantly on what your future projects are.  I am...

The little detail

Sunday, 13 May 2018, 08:10 Last update: about 10 years ago

Life is a special gift. However, what makes it so special are precisely those kind gestures and words that changes its taste altogether. This can be visible in the way we speak to one...

America first, Hungary first, Poland first

Sunday, 13 May 2018, 08:09 Last update: about 10 years ago

There was a time when Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary used to fight Bolshevism. The West was his promised land. That was then. Now it has morphed into an enemy. The West is now the site of...

Adventures of a Vatican Astronomer

Friday, 11 May 2018, 08:57 Last update: about 10 years ago

Br. Guy Consolmagno will be visiting Malta next week. He is both a Jesuit brother and a planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory, splitting his time between the meteorite...

TMID editorial: Migration – Safety takes priority

Thursday, 10 May 2018, 11:06 Last update: about 10 years ago

With summer right round the corner, the number of asylum seekers seeking to reach European shores is expected to rise as it always does, and concerns about the safety of those making the perilous...

TREES: an inspiration we need to protect

Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 09:37 Last update: about 10 years ago

Growing up playing amid southern countryside has put in me a fascination of sorts for the rugged, haphazardly sectioned Maltese countryside. I thought of the fields as a 'beyond' - with their rubble...

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