As a young pupil who attended a strict, traditional Church school, I remember very often being told that 'children should be seen and not heard'. Probably because my parents were never the unyielding tyrant types, this phrase was hardly ever used at home, so, whenever someone...
A man has died in unusual circumstances. He was nothing less than a human being like you and me, and yet he no longer speaks, breathes, lives. His mother is heartbroken, his siblings are devastated and his friends are inconsolable. Whether he was murdered and...
We're clearly in election mode and with only a few hundred votes separating the two big parties in the last election, who can blame either of them for going after 'the gays'? The Labour party seems to be doing this more tactically and strategically, with the...
Most politicians will never admit this but deep down citizens know it, and it’s the truth and nothing but the truth - the personal IS political. I shall not go into the feminist history that originally coined the now infamous phrase, but in essence what it...
Originally published on my TimesofMalta Blog where Franco Debono graced us with many of his comments...
Whenever a controversial sentence is meted out by our law courts I usually prefer not to comment before first reading the court's case transcript. Unfortunately, the transcript for the 'Amy case' was not uploaded on the court's site even after I requested it. The reason could...
A week or so ago Joseph Muscat did the unthinkable… in an unprecedented turn of events he actually shed some light on a couple of things that he plans to include in Labour’s electoral manifesto. The proposals included: The setting up of small homes in the community...
After a long deep sleep in their world of four week recesses and bliss, our politicians seem to have woken up to the realisation that online and social media are going to be the most important tools in the next electoral campaign. Better late than never...
This video clip from Bondi + was uploaded on http://carmmifsudbonnici.blogspot.com/ and is referred to in my blog on the Times online - The Penny has (finally) dropped See minutes between 1:28 - 2:06 ...
For once in my life I just to have to agree with the Bishop of Gozo who thinks that a family is a relationship between a man and a woman, who unite in marriage with the intention of having and raising children. According to Bishop Grech's...