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This thirty-three year old (ok Chris?) is back from a splendid stay in Gozo. Having missed the last five Augusts in Malta I keep wondering how the hell I used to survive the heat at this time of the year. Actually it is not the heat that worries most but the humidity. As my friend…
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Off to Gozo for a couple of days. Still trying to understand the logic behind the decision to relegate Vittoriosa Stars after the season kicked off. Not exactly cricket is it? I’ve been told by two different people who met me for the first time this week that they thought I was around fifty years…
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… then our children have it really bad. Two days into my stay on the island and one recurrent theme is the level of intolerance that is building up. First there was the shocking news item on the Times about the man who had his house broken into and “No to Gays” sprayed all over…
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This article and accompanying Bertoon appear in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. One of the top selling books in Italian bookshops this August is called “Scusami ma ti voglio sposare” (I’m sorry but I wish to marry you). An apology before a request to marry would seem unusual unless one is…
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“As a movement, the Church enters into this political sphere by offering its vision to society. This is true of the Church as an institution, but it also true for each and every believer that adheres to it: that what he believes in motivates the way that he forms part of society and his contribution…
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Esteemed readers, ladies, gentlemen and wankellectuals, this blog is now declared reanimated and alive after a deserved, unnanounced pause. We return from the salutary lands and waters of the neighbouring trinacria replenished and recharged. Fear not – the emporium of non-conformist notes and home of the dabblers of insane theories hath not abandoned you. We…