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“Futur fis-sod” they say, or “Malta taghna lkoll”. Slogans, they’re strong and they’re loud. They get repeated like some mantra gone wrong and woe betide anybody who dare criticise any of their darlings because you are immediately tagged as an undercover agent for “the other side”. Malta’s very own version of McCarthyism has now polluted…
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Much is being made in the Labour-friendly press and media about the supposed strategic “U-turn” that is in progress in the spanking new halls at PN HQ. I will look into the fallacy of the “u-turn” argument in one of my next posts and will attempt to explain how rather than a “u-turn”, the current…
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Mi han detto che questa mia generazione ormai non crede in ciò che spesso han mascherato con la fede, nei miti eterni della patria o dell’ eroe perchè è venuto ormai il momento di negare tutto ciò che è falsità, le fedi fatte di abitudine e paura, una politica che è solo far carriera, il…
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Here’s an extract from an essay by George Orwell that appeared in Horizon in the April 1946 edition. The essay entitled “Politics and English Language” may be found in its entirety on this page. Now to the extract: In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the…