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The Anti-Dame

Monday, 5 June 2017, 14:44 Last update: about 10 years ago

Malcolm Galea is to Maltese theatre what Ira Losco is to Maltese music... Whatever that may be, I'll leave it to you to decipher. No, but, seriously: He's been working in the industry since 2003...

Men in politics

Sunday, 4 June 2017, 09:17 Last update: about 10 years ago

In any electoral campaign, I invest much in observation and listening. Gradually, hidden issuesabout the Maltese themselves and their political leaders are perceived. Something I have noticedis the...

The truth makes us free

Sunday, 4 June 2017, 09:16 Last update: about 10 years ago

I want to commend one particular incident in your media action. There was a point in your video with Maria, the Russian who had worked temporarily at Pilatus Bank, which is potentially of wide...

The day of our Restoration

Sunday, 4 June 2017, 09:14 Last update: about 10 years ago

Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Pentecost! The descent of the Holy Spirit on the nascent Church was both dramatic and life changing. Pentecost was an extraordinary event because it...

The ‘blessing’ of animals

Sunday, 4 June 2017, 09:13 Last update: about 10 years ago

The "blessing" of animals is a superstition. The sprinkling of tap water by a priest has no effect on them whatsoever and makes no difference to their lives. Animals do not need any...

Civic and religious wisdom

Sunday, 4 June 2017, 09:11 Last update: about 10 years ago

It is indeed interesting but disappointing and annoying why all English-language newspapers seem to have contrived, as if by common consent, to vaporise my letters. But my blithe and undaunted...

The US electorate had ignored Watergate

Sunday, 4 June 2017, 09:10 Last update: about 10 years ago

Watergate first broke in June of 1972, a few months before the US Presidential elections of that year. The US electorate was as accident-prone then as it was last November. They failed to see its...

Christian legends

Sunday, 4 June 2017, 09:03 Last update: about 10 years ago

This is in reply to a recent cynical letter which John Guillaumier had the pleasure and the temerity to publish in a recent issue of The Malta Independent on Sunday, in an article entitled “The...

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