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Lifestyle
Debate
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VOLUNTOURISM: WHEN GOOD INTENTIONS CAUSE HARM
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SHOULD SALARY BRACKETS BE MANDATORY IN JOB ADS?
Spoiler alert: Most definitely, YES. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that any job applicant would want to know what sort of salary to […]
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POLICING NUDITY IN MALTA
“Why is it okay for Michelangelo’s David to be naked in public but not for me?” James Stewart once wrote on nudity in Malta. Whatever the legislators’ view on classical […]
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GENDER STEREOTYPES IN ADVERTS
Riddle me this… 1. A son and an engineer go fishing. The boy was the engineer’s son but the engineer wasn’t the boy’s dad. How was this possible? The engineer […]
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THE NOT-SO-SUBTLE ART OF PERSISTENCE
By nature, I think of myself as a rather persistent person. I’m a proud go-getter, and I persevere to the best of my abilities. However, more often than not when […]
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CAN FLIRTING IN THE OFFICE SPELL TROUBLE?
If you see a couple of colleagues flirting, newsflash: you’re not the first person to witness it, and certainly won’t be the last. But what if this behaviour irks you? […]
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GETTING THEM YOUNG
Hats off to St Joseph School that has included etiquette lessons in their middle school curriculum. I only wish that all other schools had followed suit. Teaching the children manners […]
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BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Ship after ship, there is no more doubt that the recent diplomatic stand-offs between Malta and Italy reveal what the European Union (EU) policy on irregular immigration for what it […]
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EU RULING AGAINST BIRD TRAPPING: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR MALTA?
The European Court of Justice published its judgement on June 21 on case C-557/15 “European Commission vs Republic of Malta” – to the joy of environmentalists and disdain among hunters. […]
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NEW FOOD RULES AT MATER DEI: HEALTH-SAVING OR MICROMANAGING?
From June next year, new guidelines apply to vendors and suppliers at Malta’s largest hospital, Mater Dei, which will see sugary and energy-rich, but nutrient-poor food disappear from its menus, […]
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VIDEO ARTIST: WE ARE MORE CONNECTED TO TREES THAN THIS CONCRETE
Glossy surfaces don’t interest Carolin Koss – she would prefer to be taken to a garden or an abandoned building instead. “I have a passion for abandoned places, because [every […]
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COMFORTABLY NUMB
I hate to admit, but we Maltese are a very passive people. We have the tendency to allow things to wash over us. Including things that people in other democratic […]
