Tuesday 19 March 2024

Sunday Opinion

When you bring the wrong person into your life, it’s the children who always suffer

March 18, 2024 | No comments

Last weekend, a man repeatedly stabbed his two step daughters aged 12 and 15, with the younger child ending up in intensive care.

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Is there such a thing as “crossing the line”?

March 12, 2024 | No comments

In the US there is a radio presenter Howard Stern who became famous in the 80s for being outrageous, vulgar and sexist towards women when they came on his show.

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So many want the perks of a top job…but not the accountability

March 5, 2024 | No comments

“Jean Paul Sofia died in an essentially unregulated construction site and the state must bear responsibility for that.”

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Let’s “do something”….by picking on long-time residents

February 27, 2024 | No comments

Every time it receives signals about the electorate’s main concerns, the Labour Government decides to set certain wheels in motion as a sort of gesture, especially to its supporters, to indicate that it is “listening”.

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We’re paying too high a price to overcome obesity

February 19, 2024 | No comments

When you have a new health Minister who announces that he wishes to increase the number of gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy surgeries that take place in government hospitals, “in order to tackle obesity”, you have to wonder whether he himself is on some form of meds.

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We are surrounded by narcissistic politicians

February 5, 2024 | No comments

“… All of his tendencies are basically where narcissism takes him, which is whatever makes him popular, makes him feel good at any given moment.”

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If you really want to stop the abuse, go after the source

January 29, 2024 | No comments

I never know whether to laugh or get angry when someone in Government comes out with a pompous-sounding statement in relation to some illegality or other which has been happening, unchecked, for years.

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What the latest statistics tell us about a changing Malta

January 22, 2024 | No comments

This column first appeared in Malta Today When people lament about how much Malta has changed they are not wrong; […]

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What’s really happening in the education sector?

January 16, 2024 | No comments

We were informed through a PQ this week that, over the past 12 weeks, six teachers have resigned from primary schools and seven from secondary and other levels.

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People beg for donations while public money is squandered

January 8, 2024 | No comments

There could not have been two more contrasting stories this week.

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