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  • J'accuse: Decadent

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    It suddenly feels like we are gate crashing into the month of December. One minute you were swimming at Ghadira on a hot August afternoon and the next Saint Nicholas’ feast is around the corner and you start to wonder whether this year’s arbre de noel should still be themed in black like last year’s.…

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  • Kicking and Screaming

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    What they said and what they meant to say: I was not kicked upstairs. – John Dalli (I’d like to think I was not kicked upstairs but everybody knows that I am only here because I was beginning to be a little uncomfortable downstairs.) I have to say that the manner in which the decision…

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  • No Parking

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    Now it’s Balluta. And the biggest fuss being made is not even about the car park that is being proposed (a cylindrical park with lift to put cars in place) but about the fact that Ballutga residents can be “rowdy”. The comments on this article in the Times border on the hilarious – with variations…

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  • What's a coffin to you?

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    Isn’t it amazing? Even though Moviment Graffiti is supposed to be really radical – though let’s be honest, nobody really radical would haul out that coffin cliché in 2009 – its members are betrayed by their nice-boy Maltese Catholic upbringing. They think all burials involve a coffin and that all coffins come with crosses on.…

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  • Ubi aemulatio? (Where's the competition?)

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    Medicine could be bought directly by the government if importers stop bringing over products issued with a price order after being deemed too expensive. “If we have a situation where an importer says he cannot bring over a particular medicinal product at the price established by the price order, then the government can choose to…

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  • Meanwhile in Milan (Google again)

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    “I pm di Milano Alfredo Robledo e Francesco Caiani hanno chiesto quattro condanne tra sei mesi e un anno per altrettanti dirigenti di Google accusati di concorso in diffamazione e in violazione della privacy in relazione a un video messo in rete l8 settembre del 2006 che ritraeva un portatore di handicap sbeffeggiato e vessato…

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