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Joe Micallef Stafrace, 1933-2021 Joe Micallef Stafrace had a distinguished career but, above all, he was a decent and well-read man. He was loyal to the Labour Party but never afraid to criticise it or its leadership when he deemed necessary. Is-Sebħ, which he edited, became a daily in 1956. It was an anti-colonial mouthpiece at a time when Dom Mintoff’s party was seeking integration with Britain. One of its famous front-page editorials in February 1956, when Major-General Sir Robert Laycock...

The gift of life I write in answer to Isabel Stabile’s examples of two women who had no regrets after having an abortion (January 17). To the unfortunate woman who decided to end her pregnancy on the advice that her baby would not survive I have this story. While walking with my daughter in London we ran into a friend of hers with the most beautiful four-year-old child. My daughter later told me that the woman we had just met had been told that an ultrasound had revealed a birth defect, and s...