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There’s no two ways about this. Tackling the effects of the coronavirus pandemic requires a particularly well-honed toolset that is fully integrated with the global realities of today’s world. The by-now standard reaction in any nation wanting to brace itself and mitigate the impact of the virus is the dreaded lockdown. The nature of the…
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15 years of “blogging so you don’t have to”. I had “borrowed” that slogan off another contemporary blogger: Ze Frank – who went on to do bigger things with the net (just in 2005, he was featured in Time Magazine’s “50 Coolest Websites.”). Contemporary. I guess it’s a thing now that we are talking of…
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This article first appeared on The Shift News on 10.12.2019. Sunday afternoon turned out to be quite surreal. As the sun began to set on The Eternal City, I stood at the top of the Spanish steps looking down on a huge crowd of people gathered to follow the Pope’s Immacolata procession. At that precise moment, some…
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Dan id-diskors li ktibt fl-okkazjoni tal-ewwel manifestazzjoni għall-Ġustizzja li saret ġimagħtejn wara l-assassinju ta’ Daphne Caruana Galizia. Għadu rilevanti iktar minn qatt qabel. X’intom tagħmlu hawn? X’inġbartu tagħmlu għal darba oħra madwar din l-għajta għall-Ġustizzja? Għadkom ma xbajtux? Għadkom ma għajjejtux? Ħarsu waħda fuq il-lemin u fuq ix-xellug tagħkom. X’ġew jagħmlu hawnhekk dawn in-nies illum? X’inhi…
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Listen to what Malta’s left has to say. Listen to the political arguments on the systemic failure. The neoliberal experiment has failed. This is the answer to the assertion of the lackeys of the government who go on television to tell anyone who still has the patience to listen that “is-sistema ta’ Muscat hadmet”. 10…
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Poezija ta’ Antonio Tufigno Kelb kien xamm riħa ta’ ħami,Beda jinbaħ bla waqfienBil-frakass u l-kjass li għamel Gozz widnejn qamu flimkien. B’dan l-allarm hekk tqajjmu l-ħnieżerĠo nofs raqda b’naħra fondaKontra qalbhom iċċaqalquĦarrku ftit is-sonza tonda, Għax kien hemm min qed josserva,Xi falkuni hekk frustieri.Ma setgħux fit-tajn jiċċaftruJew jinħbew fil-kantunieri. Konfrontati bl-għajnejn fissiTal-għasafar hekk attentiKellhom bla gost…