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Adults in the room
– Ralph Cassar – Overpopulation. I can guarantee that pretty much every individual residing on our islands uses that term at least once a day. This is, of course, understandable as Malta is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. However, the current analysis seems to be solely focusing on increase in…
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The lessons ‘Moby-Dick’ has for a warming world of rising waters
‘Moby-Dick’ inspired the Warner Brothers film starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab – and perhaps can inspire readers today amid the climate crisis. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Aaron Sachs, Cornell University As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the past can…
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Construction, speculation, tourism – the toxic throuple
– Ralph Cassar – Alex Borg wants his cake and to eat it (The truth about construction and property in Malta, 6 January 2025). His and his party’s (and also the government’s) attitude towards the property and construction sector is symptomatic of the state of politics in this country. Some sacred cows are untouchable. Alex…
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Il-mistħija xi tkun?
Il-Labour mhux talli ma reġġgħux lura l-ħsara tan-Nazzjonalisti, imma la ġiehom iċ-ċans komplew fetħu l-bibien beraħ. Għax il-politika tat-tħanżir jadurawha u jħobbuha. X’ma jieħux iċ-ċans u jaġevola lil tal-familja l-ministru. Kif qalet Rosianne Cutajar wara kollox, la kulħadd jitħanżer, għaliex ma kellhiex titħanżer hi ukoll? Din hi l-attitudni. Żero politika, mija fil-mija tribu.
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Education for education’s sake
Lately, quite a few articles, news reports and editorials on the subject of education have been published in this newspaper. All focus on education as preparation for work, to serve the economy. In so doing, these contributions ignore the interests of students, indeed, of children and their well-being. They want them to fit their square…
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Nutcase politics
That the Gozo airport, airstrip or whatever you may want to call it, has been on the agenda for aeons speaks volumes of the shallow, superficial and frankly nutcase policies shared throughout the years by the Labour and Nationalist parties. A pundit of Xarabank fame lately (in October), in one of his monologues on the…
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Jiswielek tivvota Aħdar
Jiswielek, għalik, għall-preżent u għall-futur li tuża l-vot tiegħek fl-elezzjoni għall-Parlament Ewropew u anke għall-Kunsilli Lokali, u tivvota fuq l-Aħdar. Billi tivvota fuq l-Aħdar qed tgħaddi messaġġ b’saħħtu. Qed tgħaddi messaġġ li trid pajjiż verament modern. X’jiswielek imbilli Bernard Grech u Robert Abela joqogħdu jkesksu lill-partitarji tagħhom għal xulxin? La fil-Kunsilli ma jiswielek li jkollna…
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The Q&A: Meet Ralph Cassar
Is the European Union relevant to the Maltese? The European Union is very relevant to the Maltese. Young people in particular want to spread their wings, gain new experiences, and expand their horizons. This is the Malta they know and want, a Malta in the EU. But for all of us, whether Maltese born or…
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Aħdar – progressivi u ekoloġisti
Intervista li dehret fuq il-pjattaformi tal-MaltaToday
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Xtra – Pajjiż marid
Fiż-żewġ interventi fuq Xtra ta’ dil-ġimgħa tkellimt dwar għaliex għandek tivvota fuq l-Aħdar, u għaliex dan il-pajjiż, pajjiż politikament marid.
