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The PL, Freud, and that famous Maltese proverb

Sunday, 21 June 2015, 09:55 Last update: about 12 years ago Joe Cassar

When one speaks and accidentally inserts a word that is on one's subconscious mind in place of another, we refer to it as a Freudian slip. Technically, it is referred to as parapraxis. This Labour...

Listening and delivering

Sunday, 21 June 2015, 09:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Justyne Caruana

No matter all the projects that politicians plan and carry out, their best achievements will always depend on how well they listen to and understand what the people they represent need and deserve....

Moving out of the glasshouse

Friday, 19 June 2015, 11:37 Last update: about 12 years ago Petra Caruana Dingli

The government cannot hope to safeguard its environmental reputation just by pointing out the faults of others. If the Opposition, the Curia,NGOs, or now even the general public, say anything in...

Vatican Encyclical: Pope Francis is absolutely right

Friday, 19 June 2015, 09:11 Last update: about 12 years ago

In a blunt and straight to the point document, Pope Francis yesterday called on the world to safeguard the environment and to put right the “structurally perverse” economic...

Birzebbuga chemical spill: Lack of information

Thursday, 18 June 2015, 08:03 Last update: about 12 years ago

Judging from the way the authorities handled the chemical spill in Birzebbuga last weekend, it is a good thing indeed that Malta has so far been relatively immune to natural and industrial...

Obesity: A holistic approach is needed

Monday, 15 June 2015, 08:04 Last update: about 12 years ago

Education Minister Evartist Bartolo last week announced that thousands of Maltese school children are going to be screened and tested in an effort to establish the body mass index of our...

A Moment In Time - Things (on the pavement) that remind you

Sunday, 21 January 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I am honestly getting used to living in the quieter part of Sliema, probably the last place I would have thought about – even going back just a few months – for what would hopefully one day be the third-age phase of my life....

The Noose

Sunday, 21 January 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I can’t describe the strange feeling I had when I saw Saddam being hung. I can’t explain the emotion when I saw him dangling lifeless in the second-hand video clip version of his punishment cum spectacle A death penalty, which according ...

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