Category: Library
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Parliament Strikes Back
Speaker Bercow stood up and made a statement. He did so from his position within an old and respectable institution and what he said was firmly embedded and rooted in tradition. It was not tradition for the sake of tradition but rather the kind of tradition that forms part of an ongoing process of institutional…
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Unpopular Representation
“(An MP) his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. … Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion” –…
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Judge Grixti’s Catch-22
“They don’t have to show us Catch-22,” the old woman answered. “The law says they don’t have to.”“What law says they don’t have to?”“Catch-22.” Catch-22, Joseph Heller Konrad Mizzi, the government and anybody with an interest in transforming the Mizzi/Schembri Panama Papers issue into yet another story of apparent ‘allegations’ are crying victory all over…
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Public Cleansing, memorials and humanity
Last Friday (the 4th of January) the vice-mayor of the Italian city of Trieste put up a post on Facebook in which he explained that while walking through one of the streets of the city he had come across a pile of covers, jackets and other similar stuff. “Since there was nobody around”, he posted,…
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The Sale of Public Land
Citizens have a duty to ensure that their government is monitored whenever it manages their public land.
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La Liberta’
Vorrei essere libero, libero come un uomo. Vorrei essere libero come un uomo. Come un uomo appena nato Che ha di fronte solamente la natura E cammina dentro un bosco Con la gioia di inseguire un’avventura. Sempre libero e vitale Fa l’amore come fosse un animale Incosciente come un uomo Compiaciuto della propria libertà. La…