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All I want for Christmas

Sunday, 3 December 2017, 08:56 Last update: about 8 years ago Peter Fenech

It may be my impression but decorations for Christmas seem to have gone up earlier this year. They started to surface and become visible in the middle of November and this struck me as odd, though...

Commemorating the Protestant Reformation

Sunday, 3 December 2017, 08:54 Last update: about 8 years ago

Tuesday, 31 October marked the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. It was on this day, in 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his paper listing the 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in...

Ode to the pomegranate

Sunday, 3 December 2017, 08:54 Last update: about 8 years ago

In the Pashtun language in Afghanistan, the word for pomegranate begins with an ‘a’, so a picture of a pomegranate is used to teach children the letter a, like we use the 'a' for apple in...

Four weeks since Daphne’s funeral….. Why is autonomy important?

Saturday, 2 December 2017, 08:41 Last update: about 8 years ago Vicki Ann Cremona

In the fourth week since Daphne’s funeral, once again the family have had to take action to ensure that justice is done. It is rather surprising that in certain cases, which only involve common...

When a subsidiary law breaches a primary law

Wednesday, 29 November 2017, 09:37 Last update: about 8 years ago Kevin Aquilina

On 4 October 2017, PN MPs David Agius and Stephen Spiteri, two Nationalist Party MPs, tabled a private members Motion, Motion No. 66, in the House of Representatives. They proposed an amendment to the...

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