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Getting a Brazilian
I don't recall much about what the PM had said when he had told the quivering masses that we were going to get a Brazilian. Politicians tend to announce these things at the drop of a hat and Dr Gonzi is not immune from the temptation to impart...
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HOW DARE HE!
I'm watching President Obama deliver his victory speech and I am distraught. He hasn't once mentioned Our Great White Hope, the one with more than one 100% per cent on his Form IIC Mid-Year Report, the one who can attack world greats by telling them...
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AND THE WINNER IS...
I don't watch the Great Debate. To start with, Xarabank is not amongst my favourite shows, the baying masses not exercising any form of attraction on me, and to be going on with, I was in Sicily and in this fair land, and on the mainland too, for...
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The Bait
Against my better judgement, and health, last Friday I joined most of Malta and watched the political debate between the Prime Minister and Joseph Muscat. It took me a while to write this, not only because I needed a few hours to recover from...
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It's all about politics stupid
Someone asked me what I think will happen in the deputy-leadership contest of the PN. I can't understand why I was targeted with such a question. I've never understood a thing about politics and every time I say anything about it I hear a few...
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Will the real bigots please stand up?
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the most prominent figure of the Catholic Church in Scotland, has just been named as Bigot of the Year at the annual Stonewall Awards. The gay, lesbian and bisexual charity conferred the award on O'Brien for his strong...
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CUDDLE HIM NOT
What a country this is: a politician makes an off-the-cuff remark and everyone and his brother has to jump in and read into it depths of meaning that are dependent only on the bits of the remark that they chose to hear. Simon Busuttil said that the...
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WHOSE PROBLEM, PRECISELY?
Leaving aside the ins and outs of the affair that has been christened as "Dalligate" (such originality) don't you find it amusing that the Labour-leaning media, social and real, has suddenly started to remind us that Dalli is a true blue...
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Circus of sadness
This is a painfully recurring subject for me, one that I had already written about on my personal blog last year. However, since it seems like we are not seeing the light of day as yet, I’ll just have to write about it some more. Until someone,...
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Women are their own worst enemies
In the past 15 general elections in Malta thousands of men have contested, but only 73 women. Malta ranks a sad 108th in the world for female participation in parliament Only 6 out of 69 members of parliament are female – with the world’s average at...
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Women are their own worst enemies
In the past 15 general elections in Malta hundreds of men have contested, but only 73 women. Malta ranks a sad 108th in the world for female participation in parliament Only 6 out of 69 members of parliament are female – with the world's average at...
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These are interesting times
Some great twit once said that we live in interesting times. I definitely wish—and I know I’m repeating myself from my previous blog post—I lived in uninteresting, boring days where no €60 million sums were bandied about. What does one do with all...
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Halloween: holy horror or pure fun?
Last week I participated in a programme on Net TV discussing children and the Internet. During the programme we were analysing research published on the subject. I had an unexpected verbal spat with a female caller who among other things said that...
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SWALLOWING SUMMERS
The Hon. Dr. Helena Dalli has fired a warning shot across the bows of the good ship MV State Sector, saying that if Labour get that for which they are fairly gagging, the keys to Castille, "unqualified" people will be removed from their posts. As...
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Don’t blame the roads, blame Arriva
So when Arriva buses first made it to Malta (calm down with the cheering fellas), amidst all the no-shows, impractical new routes and clueless drivers, I was one of the few to say that everyone should calm the hell down and give them a...
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COOKING GEESE
The legality or otherwise of Mr John Dalli's actions or inactions in connection with the matter that brought about his resignation, even if he seems to be having doubts about whether he resigned or not (in this he is unique, as in being the only...
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Time for Malta to be bland
I’m sitting in a room, mercifully with no cigarette smoke puffing my way. Tonio Borg has been nominated to replace John Dalli as European Commissioner. May Dr Borg get the appointment endorsed by the EP—and may he be our blandest, dullest emissary.
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GET IT STRAIGHT, FOR ONCE
If you take a look under my Beck column, you'll notice a number of comments lambasting me for pre-judging Mr John Dalli. If you actually read my column, you'll see that nowhere do I judge Dalli to be guilty of anything, though I do make comments on...
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Good news, irregular couples and much else in between
It's quite an interesting and dynamic period for the Church. The Synod of Bishops is meeting in Rome, the Year of Faith has been inaugurated and the 50th anniversary of Vatican Council II is being commemorated. Each one of these events is important...
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Say Hello to The Twins
October is soon to be inaugurated the month for sickeningly shameful court sentences, but since I’ve already written about the absurdity of all that, since I’ve already felt sick to my stomach reading ridiculous judgements and since it seems that...
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