The President's address
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 08:37
Last update: about 11 years ago
The President’s encyclical address on Republic Day was disappointing in the sense that she chose to adulterate an otherwise excellent speech with one of her thrusts on the highly controversial...
Of freezing classrooms and lack of road maintenance
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 08:36
Last update: about 11 years ago
One of the most notable features of our culture is to complain, criticize and find faults ad nauseum. Some complaints are justified and are a means of feeling the pulse of the people and address...
I was there 40 years ago and now as well
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 08:34
Last update: about 11 years ago
The newspaper Il-Furjana has done it again. I would like to congratulate the board of the newspaper il-Furjana for the initiative taken on Sunday, 22 April last year by reuniting the Floriana...
Democracy and freedom
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 08:33
Last update: about 11 years ago
The Leader of the Opposition seems to believe that the only way he can save his political skin is by imitating Dr Eddie Fenech Adami’s tactics of the 1980s. Back then, the slogan was...
The impossible is becoming possible
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 08:32
Last update: about 11 years ago
The populist French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is closer to gaining power in France after last week's polls showed that she is very likely to reach at least a second round of voting this spring in...
Subconsciously contagious
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 08:30
Last update: about 11 years ago
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity then embrace. This...
Why fall in love with Thomas Aquinas?
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 08:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
On Saturday 28 January, the Church celebrated the feast of the Doctor Communis, namely Saint Thomas Aquinas. Given that in the Catechism Aquinas is cited 61...
Extravagant trumpery
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 08:28
Last update: about 11 years ago
The Floriana parish church spent €45,000 on two crystal chandeliers to decorate its interior. I'm sure that Jesus would be horrified with such extravagant trumpery in a Christian church. The...
The Fox and the Grapes
Sunday, 19 February 2017, 08:27
Last update: about 11 years ago
I am not easily confused, but over the last two weeks, I have come to think something is not quite right. I am referring to the farcical ‘Maltese Cheesecakes’ matter. Can anybody...
Editorial: An opaque transparency
Saturday, 18 February 2017, 10:18
Last update: about 11 years ago
The government’s much-vaunted transparency could not be clearer than as presented this week. When the government, with some bravado and the usual spin, released the documents relating to...