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03Mar
Marriage Saves Lives
I was just sitting quietly at my desk typing and working away when, suddenly, I was startled by a loud cheer from the office next door. Being Valentine’s Day I thought that someone must have gone down on one knee
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06Jan
Love at Confused.com
I tried to wait it out, I really, really did. I tried with all my might to let the Christmas season go by without commenting about the Pope’s latest attack on gay marriage….you know the one in which he unceremoniously
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09Dec
The easiest answer is No
Scene – option 1 Michael (10 years old) – Mum, can I sleep over at Jessie’s tonight? Mum – No Michael bickers and frets, throws a tantrum, eventually gets tired and sleeps End of story Scene – option 2 Michael
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18Aug
He is King of The World
My brother David suffers from a learning and intellectual disability. To put it simply, he’s thirty years old with the mental age of a six year old. Despite his condition, he is a brilliant swimmer; he can hold his breath
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10Aug
Pathetically Sad Arguments
The worst kind of let downs are the ones you walk straight into. They’re the ones your better judgement warns you about but you just don’t listen. And this is exactly what I did with the new IVF Bill.
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22Jul
Seen And Not Heard
As a young pupil who attended a strict, traditional Church school, I remember very often being told that ‘children should be seen and not heard’. Probably because my parents were never the unyielding tyrant types, this phrase was hardly ever
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18Jun
A Slap on the Wrist
Whenever a controversial sentence is meted out by our law courts I usually prefer not to comment before first reading the court’s case transcript. Unfortunately, the transcript for the ‘Amy case’ was not uploaded on the court’s site even
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12Jun
Not myChoice
A week or so ago Joseph Muscat did the unthinkable… in an unprecedented turn of events he actually shed some light on a couple of things that he plans to include in Labour’s electoral manifesto. The proposals included: The
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26May
The Bishop is Right
For once in my life I just to have to agree with the Bishop of Gozo who thinks that a family is a relationship between a man and a woman, who unite in marriage with the intention of having and
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16May
Of Surprises & Wet Noses
Surprising the one you love is hard….very hard. Usually, if they know you well enough and you’re not an Oscar or Grammy Award winner they can tell when you’re fibbing and when you’re nervous. They can even tell when
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