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No Bikini At-all

27.07.2010

The Bikini gets its name from the Bikini atoll which was the area targeted for a nuclear test at the same time as the fashion symbol and style hit the catwalks in Europe. Western Europeans got over the initial fuss when the seaside attire was popularised by the great Hollywood divas and anyone outside the [...]


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Badly Politicised Poverty

20.04.2010

When politicians try to monopolise poverty the only losers are the citizens.


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Nix Mangiari?

12.04.2010

The first in a series of Think3 posts looking into poverty in Malta. 


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Kullhadd Gallarija

30.03.2010

Yesterday’s whirlwind of meetings has begun to take its toll. It’s either that or the travails of a five-a-side match (4 goals) and a loaded kosksu (2 gbejnas and one egg). In any case it’s been a hectic 36 hours. This time round it has also been a series of meetings with blog related contacts [...]


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Non piú andrai

28.03.2010

Most of my spare reading time nowadays involves anything that I can get my hand on about the Roman Republic at the turn of the first century. Far from being the yawn inducing concoction of togas and legionnaires suitable only to feed Hollywood blockbusters of the sixties, the very fabric of Roman society at the [...]


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Disenfranchised

27.03.2010

It’s been a lovely first day on Melita. My first task on the island was to perform my civic duty and vote for one or more of the candidates contesting the election for the Hamlet of Paceville. Having dispatched this week’s article to the folks at the Indy I headed for the Millenium chapel for [...]


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Plato's Cave Men

26.03.2010

On this first Th!nk post, J’accuse examines the possible role of a blog in a blogging community writing about “global cooperation and sustainable development” in the run up to the UN Millennium Development Goals Review Summit in September 2010. Why blog? What about? Where about? Who about? It’s those “double-u’s” again, and it’s an existential [...]


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Thinkabout It! III

22.03.2010

This blog is off to Brussels again to take part in the launching of the third Thinkabout IT! experience. We had skipped the second one due to work obligations but we are back for the Development edition. We have no idea what to look forward to or what to expect but it is always an [...]


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Lead by Example

24.02.2010

Where we discuss how Malta’s younger generation are being fed the wonderful example of adult cyber-bullying – cyber-terrorism.


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J'accuse in Malta

13.02.2010

Landed in Malta on Saturday 13th February 00.15hrs. Bumpy flight. Love the chill makes a change from frozen Luxembourg. Here till Monday morning.


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