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		<title>Honourable mention in new ECHR judgment</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/honourable-mention-in-new-echr-judgment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Court of Human Rights, in handing down the judgment SEMIK-ORZECH v. POLAND today, referred to my case AQUILINA AND OTHERS v. MALTA. The relevant paragraph speaks for itself: The Court notes that the present case is to be distinguished from the case of Aquilina and Others v. Malta, cited above, where all the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=246&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The London Riots</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/the-london-riots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times of Malta asked me for some comments on the London riots. I should have had nothing to say really, since I luckily did not come across any rioting hoodies, but of course that wasn&#8217;t about to stop me. So here&#8217;s what I said: As far as I&#8217;m concerned, the pictures I&#8217;m seeing on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=247&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some pretty data to put paid to the Malta immigration myth</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/some-pretty-data-to-put-paid-to-malta-immigration-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigration is not about numbers, but about people&#8230; but even the numbers don&#8217;t add up in the Maltese context &#8230; Sorry MT peeps, there are more of us out here, than there are &#8216;foreigners&#8217; on the rock. Maybe Malta is not the centre of the universe after all? Data courtesy of http://www.peoplemov.in/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=231&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you haven&#8217;t read this yet, please do&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/if-you-havent-read-this-yet-please-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times of Malta journalist acted in good faith when reporting on bigamy court case In today’s Chamber judgment in the case Aquilina and Others v. Malta (application no.28040/08), which is not final, the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: A violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=224&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s why I haven&#8217;t been blogging much lately&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/heres-why-i-havent-been-blogging-much-lately/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What with not wanting to get fired for being a loudmouth (which, admittedly, I am) and taking on some book editing projects which are taking up all that&#8217;s left of my &#8220;free&#8221; time, I have neglected this blog terribly. I&#8217;ve been working on the loudmouth thing but I can&#8217;t help being offensive and tactless at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=223&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best line I&#8217;ve heard all year&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/best-line-ive-heard-all-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a TV script, that is&#8230; The redoubtable Dame Maggie Smith as the scary Dowager Countess of Grantham in the second episode of Downton Abbey, when told there&#8217;s always the weekend to do additional work on the estate&#8230; &#8220;What&#8217;s a weekend?&#8221; Priceless.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=214&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11 September?</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/11-september/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[11? September? I blink and a fortnight whisks past&#8230; but this weekend I&#8217;ve got all the time in the world. No plans, just me, alone in my flat, the right ingredients for a couple of recipes I&#8217;ve been wanting to try for a while, a stack of magazines, a pile of DVDs and Jane Garvey&#8216;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=195&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for the Maltese migrant to London</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/tips-for-the-maltese-migrant-to-london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Location Where you live is a matter of preference. I prefer the North to the South and the North West to the North East. Having said that, there are pockets of lovely areas all over London so the measure should be the easiest way of travelling from home to work and the safest. This isn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=191&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s no such thing as benign racism&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/theres-no-such-thing-as-benign-racism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had written that phrase. As it happens, they are the words of a P Khorsandi who writes a very good article about the pitfalls of race and online dating.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=188&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transition</title>
		<link>http://shaspi.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Spiteri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not exactly sure what&#8217;s happened to me in the past four years or so but suddenly I&#8217;ve become a person who likes to make things. I still think more than is good for me, but now I write less than I used to and I&#8217;ve discovered the joy of making things. So I&#8217;ve started [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaspi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2194887&amp;post=120&amp;subd=shaspi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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