Sometimes the old excuse that Daphne Caruana Galizia refused protection so that’s all the state could do about that comes up again. Mark Anthony Falzon’s piece on The Sunday Times made many arguments that at first I felt needed response. Until of course you realise that it is his piece which is itself a response [...]

If there’s “no inquiry”, they need not appeal Konrad Mizzi told the Constitutional Court his fundamental rights are breached simply by the fact that the law allows anyone, you included, to complain about him committing a crime and ask for an inquiry to start. The argument is well and truly absurd. Try to apply this [...]

If the Prime Minister is making you feel it’s all for nothing, his strategy is working Joseph Muscat is no idiot. Of course he knows Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri are now suspects in a criminal investigation. That in itself is not proof of wrongdoing and they continue to deny the wrongdoing. Innocent until proven [...]

There is a country that has a leader with an unwavering base of supporters. It would seem he can do no wrong in a surprising number of people’s eyes. It does not matter what he says or doesn’t say; it does not matter how many people close to him are accused of crimes and corruption, [...]