Author: Jacques René Zammit
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Toxic
Malta might soon have to worry about a more real danger than Syrian refugees. Not that Syrian (or any other) refugees are dangerous. The boat carrying Syrian chemical weapons that left Latakia port on Tuesday carries a much more lethal threat than any amount of refugees could ever (even potentially) be. BBC News reported that…
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If this is man
There were two news items on yesterday evening’s edition that struck me more than any other. It’s true that the nature of news reporting is such that you will inevitably get the worst picture of the nature of man. Crimes and wars are committed by man upon man. It is usually our reaction to natural…
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Doktor! Doktor!
The law students are apparently throwing some hissy fit and demanding guarantees that the reform of their degree will not entail the dropping of the “Dr” nomenclature for the law course graduates. Such big deal this “Call me a Dr” business. Or is it? It is quite indicative that the law students were much less…
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Notre classe politique est une pipe
I believe that I have referred to this idea at least once before. Magritte’s creation seems prima facie to be an inherent contradiction since he accompanies an image of a pipe with the caption “this is not a pipe”. In actual fact Magritte’s observation was more of the obsessive compulsive kind – “you could not stuff…
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Din għalikom, li mingħalikom…
Is-sena intemmet bit-tajjeb. Intfejna xi ftit mid-dinja tal-opinjoni u intfajna xi ftit fuq ir-riflessjoni. Nifs ‘il ġewwa qabel ma terġa’ tibda tonfoħ. Kelli ċans nisma’ u ntaffi ftit mill-fatt li, issa li qed noqrob l-għaxar snin ‘il bogħod mill-gżejjer, il-politika insegwiha tabilħaqq bl-aloofness sanitarizzat. Titfa’ widnejk ma’ l-art bħal xi indjan fil-films tal-kajbojs (mhux Johnny) u tgħarrex…
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Il-Vapur ghal Betlehem
Qbadna il-kju mill-Ghadira. Il-Hadd imqaddes. Kju karozzi Maltin ta’ Malta li ghogobhom jghaddu l-ahhar Hadd tas-sena f’Ghawdex. Allajbierek. “Ghawdxi tajjeb aharqu” jghidu. Ma’ l-ewwel cans li jkollhom imaqdru ‘l Ghawdex u lill-Ghawdxin. Imma min imaqdar irid jixtri jghidu u f’dan il-kaz ix-xewqa tax-xerrej tigi ikkargata ghira. Kju jibda mill-Ghadira. Min jipprova jaqbez, min jirnexxilu b’komplicità…