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Editorial: Egrant saga - The supposedly impartial judge

Monday, 24 April 2017, 09:48 Last update: about 10 years ago

There were many shocking reports on the Sunday newspaper front pages, all of which were related to the ongoing Egrant saga.  The Malta Independent on Sunday, for example, revealed that Pilatus...

The Egrant Thesis

Monday, 24 April 2017, 09:18 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Whether we like it or not, the Panama Papers scandal will determine the future political development of this country. Not poverty (94,000 people live close to or beneath the poverty line...

Surplus: plus or minus?

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 08:59 Last update: about 10 years ago Sam Abela

Sam Abela  Fiscal surplus seems to be the latest buzzword in political spheres. The Labour government has been boasting of having attained the surplus with the pomp one would expect from a...

Social epigenetics

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 08:57 Last update: about 10 years ago Michael Asciak

When Gregory Mendel, the father of modern genetics and a Catholic priest to boot, established the ways of genetic inheritance, we thought that we had understood the whole way that our inheritance...

From mudslinging to real facts

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 08:41 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

Throughout my years of serving in the political arena, I have learned to be positive after surviving unfair campaigns. No one has ever dared attack my performance and my personal integrity but could...

Mariolatry

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 07:55 Last update: about 10 years ago

Throughout all the transformations of religion, the Mother Goddess has remained. In our times, this cult manifests itself through Mariolatry. In Malta, Mariolatry can be witnessed in the dreary...

Fantastic 8 March 2017

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 07:53 Last update: about 10 years ago

I dreamt that J. Guillaumier dropped his pen in a teacup at 8am after ruminating on the words of Pope Francis, less than two months after his election, that Christians should see atheists as good...

Divine Mercy Sunday

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 07:51 Last update: about 10 years ago

Today, the Second Sunday of Easter, the Church celebrates Divine Mercy Sunday. In his homily at Saint Faustina's canonization, Saint John Paul II declared that "this Second Sunday of Easter from...

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