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No time for moral equivalence
Seventy-five years ago, Fascist Italy surrendered. Its fleet began sailing towards Malta where the final instruments of surrender were...
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Giorgio La Pira
Earlier this month, Pope Francis recognised the heroic virtues of Giorgio La Pira, the Mayor of Florence between 1961 and 1965. This is...
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The Past is a Foreign Country
In my piece for The Times of Malta (11.VII.2018), I argue that one cannot get over painful memories of the past by re-writing history....