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PROMISE THE EARTH, AND THE MOON
Just noticed I haven’t blogged for a bit – so sorry, time flies and all that. Don’t you think that Labour Lil’elves, and sometimes I wonder whether we shouldn’t start calling Joseph Muscat L.I.C. (work it out) slightly missed the point about the...
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Family Crimes
Today, the Court of Criminal Appeals decided to uphold a previous judgement and jail a mother for three months. Her crime? Not assault, not drugs, and not even theft. Her crime, if you so want to call it, was that of not allowing her ex-husband...
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Fancy brainy lies
I’m not great at numbers—well actually I’m hardly great at anything. But give me figures and stocks and shares and IPOs and I really come a great cropper. So forgive me if I say something silly. I have no clue what the price of the Facebook (FB)...
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Will it be politics, infernal politics?
Usually politicians speak metaphorically of heaven and hell. Heaven is their spot in government while hell is the other party's tenure of office. Last Saturday during the mass meeting of the Partit Laburista at Ta' Qali, the Labour leader, for some...
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A dangerous game
I’m really not sure whether this man is the biggest troll ever or whether he is being perfectly serious. “Most men are provoked into domestic violence.” Immortal – not to mention totally unexpected – words uttered by Dr Josie Muscat. If any man had...
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The City awakes
The new Valletta project—all of it—looks great and hurrah for it. If Valletta also becomes the European Capital of Culture in 2018 that will spell more hurrahs for a great city with a real soul. Anyone who hates the Piano project—City entrance,...
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TALK, TALK
According to Mr Lino Spiteri, Labour's Mass Meeting in Ta' Qali was impressive, to which all I can say is that anyone who finds himself impressed by the size of a crowd (at either of the party's meetings, actually) should be somewhat careful, lest...
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ENCOURAGING, THOUGH NOT COMPLETELY
The Editorial carried by the Times on Thursday was a particularly good one, because it put an aspect of our political landscape into stark perspective. Finally, it seems to have been noticed by the single most important component of our media...
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Drawing the line
I still can’t get my head around the fact that the YouTube broadcast of a cheap, sorry excuse for a short movie, one that was so poorly produced that it made me break out in hives, caused the murder of the US Ambassador to Libya and another 20...
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Spicy spouses
No talk about 50 shades of dullness here: it's all about wives and politics so my piece is definitely more titillating than that grey book of erotica that has rocked the world. A few days ago the second most important country in the world—the...
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PL: stating the obvious
I know I'm probably driving everyone nuts by using these posts to criticise both PL and PN in quick succession, but bear with me. It is hardly my fault they are both making a pig's ear out of pretty much every political issue that we really care...
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In Praise of Ghawdex
This blog has nothing to do with Dr Joseph Muscat’s recent pow-wow in Ghawdex nor with the exquisite literary endeavour of fellow blogger Andrew Borg Cardona. His piece called Gozo Trippin’ is a gem that only the Little Elves can comprehend. Nor is...
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Tolerating intolerance
What a sad and strange world ours is. A stupid film incenses some Muslims and they go on a rampage. The US Secretary of State has to pronounce herself on why the USA and the free world cannot stop such films from being produced because of the right...
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GOZO TRIPPIN'
And it came to pass that Joseph Muscat brought his ambulant circus of Lil'Elves and other assorted clowns to Gozo to continue mapping out their road-map or whatever it is that their Congress is seeking to achieve. I'll give erudite consideration to...
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My Family & Other Animals
Contrary to popular belief, I don’t make a living writing. This is because as most writers and bloggers will tell you, living off writing alone almost invariably results in a very poor and meagre life. So, to make ends meet, and sometimes...
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NOT OK THEN
It is one of my abiding fascinations how some sorts spot one phrase in my writing and latch on to it in order to dump on me. I'm not referring to the usual Lil'Elves, especially the ones who think that their personal axes are not obviously being...
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In praise of my father
Tomorrow (September 13) is my father's 93rd birthday. He will celebrate it with my mother. I will visit his human remains at Naxxar. He could not read or write. My mother was able to do both. I hope that in their spare time she would read to him...
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Chill, it's just satire
The political war has now officially reached a ridiculous level of low. Despite the childishness of the pre-election tactics that are typically employed by our MPs, I had truly believed that things had evolved enough for the usual suspects to be...
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Dread to be red
With all the madness going on in this country nothing beats a good lottery or a spot of gambling to get us all back to reality and away from politics and petty tricks. Brace yourself for some hot news: If I win the Lotterija Indipendenza organised...
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ALL OK THEN
I was going to dedicate this installment of the feelings of Little Me to a bit of a raspberry in the general direction of that quite prolific writer, Mr Martin Scicluna, who produces with the backing of a think-tank with which I am not familiar,...
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