Matthew Caruana Galizia: "Once your break down institutions, and capture them and destroy them in order to enable your own corruption you let in the door everything else, all the other bad stuff in the world. It's like inverting the Pandora's Box. This is what's happened. So, of course, as long as there's impunity and [...]
A company owned by the prime minister’s chief of staff Keith Schembri was awarded two huge plots of land in the Bulebel Industrial Estate days before his boss, prime minister Joseph Muscat called a general election in 2017. The plots of land were granted for a 65 year lease starting 1st March 2017. One of [...]
The reaction to any blog post or article that is critical of the PN from a source of information that is habitually critical of Joseph Muscat’s government is as predictable as it is sad. It’s not that an opinion that is expressed that is in some way controversial or challenging should not expect to be [...]
See this episode of Metropolis, the first feature of which explores the contradictions of a European Capital of Culture that tries its best to ignore that a journalist has been killed. This is the French language version.
Maria Efimova spoke to me about how a man she does not know ran alongside her on her morning run near where she lives and told her ‘you know you are going to die’. Maria Efimova was taking her morning run along the beach close to her home in Crete when she had this brief [...]