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Having trouble dealing with “the people”? An ungrateful electorate has just given you a right royal whupping at the polls? Is your electorate in need of a timely distraction? No plans and nowhere to go? Having trouble roping in your colleagues in cabinet? Has every news topic been…
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Nobel prize winner Dario Fo has suffered a temporary setback while touring with his latest show entitled “Giotto o non Giotto?”. During this show Fo queries whether the famous painter Giotto is actually the person to have painted the famous affreschi in the Assisi basilica. According to Fo the painter was too young to…
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J’accuse is no architect and notwithstanding the ever-expanding ego does not deem itself an expert in the field of architectural appraisals. What follows is a barbarian appraisal of the sketches, plans and whatnot that have been unveiled for the hoi polloi to see and for the commentators (or bloggers as the Sunday Times…
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They might have not won it while exuding sparks of brilliance and samba football but Dunga’s XI twice proved that this new Brasil has added resilience to its repertoire and style of play. Yesterday’s performance was typical of recent runs – an execrable first half in which Brasil all but threw the towel to disciplined…
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This article and accompanying Bertoon appear in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday (28.06.09). I was a hundred per cent certain that the first time I had heard Bob Marley sing was on a Xandir Malta re-run of the Banana Split Adventure Show. That would have been some time in the late seventies…
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This is not the J’accuse obit. It is one of those “reflections” on how the pop world, pop culture and the internet-driven global village will “deal” with the passing away of the King of Pop (“self-styled” -as some radios are insisting). Bereavement won’t have much to do with this. Sure, some fans (and that some…