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Gozo part of the national prosperity

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 08:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

Human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. These all act, react and interact with each other and we individually evaluate facts rather than...

The virtue of magnanimity

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Michael Asciak

With the world being what it is, descending ever deeper into the spiral of relativity, I have always believed that in secular politics one of the ways forward is to practise more than ever the theory...

The Bible – is it myth or authority?

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 07:57 Last update: about 10 years ago

Is the Bible fact or fiction? The world of Christian religion is being shaken to its very foundations, the Bible, not only by atheists and agnostics but also by the hierarchy of the Church -...

About ratting and other things

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 07:52 Last update: about 10 years ago

When the IAAF, the athletics' governing body issued a blanket ban on Russian athletes, it said that according to the evidence there was no doubt that the doping was state sponsored, although Putin had...

Degendering the Maltese family

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 07:46 Last update: about 10 years ago

"I Am Your Voice" thundered arch conservative presidential candidate Trump addressing the LGBT community during his election campaign. Yet months after he was elected, he barred gays, lesbians...

That inspiring Subiaco

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 07:37 Last update: about 10 years ago

Recently Dame Inspiration drove me to Subiaco, Italy, which is about 40 miles east of Rome. Subiaco is a very sacred place for the Benedictine family because it was a very young...

North Korea's ambitious nuclear programme

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 07:34 Last update: about 10 years ago

Believe it or not, North Korea is again on a war footing. Kim Jong-un is steadily asserting himself as the centre of all authority, as his grandfather did. In a country where propaganda sets reality,...

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