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Nigel Farage: persona non grata

Sunday, 27 November 2016, 08:08 Last update: about 11 years ago

Nigel Farage is the person who undoubtedly influenced the Brexit vote. He persuaded many that an inordinate number of foreigners were coming to live in Britain. He simply did not want them in the UK....

Editorial: In Kafka country

Friday, 25 November 2016, 11:55 Last update: about 11 years ago

Someone high up must have read his Kafka. We are now living in Kafka time. This is Kafka country. So the government desirous, it said, of ensuring transparency and justice for all, decided to...

Editorial: A million besieged

Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 09:50 Last update: about 11 years ago

The UN humanitarian chief says conditions in Syrian rebel-held eastern Aleppo have gone "from terrible to terrifying and now barely survivable." Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council on...

Editorial: From one end of the world to the other

Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 09:47 Last update: about 11 years ago

The prime minister has become a sort of a globe-trotter. One day he is here, the next he is there. In recent days he has spanned the world’s continents: holding a conference in New York one...

Art exhibition at Siggiewi medieval chapel

Monday, 21 November 2016, 12:09 Last update: about 11 years ago

The Siggiewi Heritage Foundation is organizing an art exhibition at the medieval Chapel dedicated to the Assumption of Our Lady at the hamlet of Hal-Xluq within the limits of Siggiewi.  Some of...

Editorial: A lost opportunity

Monday, 21 November 2016, 09:45 Last update: about 11 years ago

Today Dr. Toni Abela will join his long time friend and political partner Judge Wenzu Mintoff. He will be appointed to serve on the bench.  On a personal level we congratulate Judge Abela on his...

Oh, To be a personbird

Sunday, 11 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

A little bit of a furore has developed after a woman in an official position insisted on the use of the hybrid word “chairperson”, rather than the Madam Chairman that more ordinarily substitutes for Mr Chairman,...

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