Timothy Alden is Deputy Leader of the Partit Demokratiku. He wrote in on World Environment Day which also happens to be the eve of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. It has been 75 years since D-Day when humanity mobilised against an inhuman ideology. 75 years down the line, who would have imagined that today we would [...]

Sent in by someone known to me. Democracy keeps hitting a new low in Malta month after month. In other parts of Europe, party leaders shouldered the responsibility for electoral losses last month by calling it quits. That's what leadership is about. As a Maltese voter, my message to Adrian Delia and all Maltese politicians is short [...]

Edward Scicluna, Chris Cardona and Konrad Mizzi replied in Court giving their reasons why an inquiry should not be conducted to look into their conduct in the VGH Hospitals scandal. At this point, their guilt or innocence is not being examined. The question being looked at is whether there is enough that is known to [...]

  There were two interviews on the online newspapers today. The Times of Malta interviewed Adrian Delia. The Malta Independent interviewed Mark Anthony Sammut. Watch them both. The topics covered in the interviews have been extensively covered in the press, including this website over the last several days. And the online newspapers themselves summarise the [...]

Henry S Pace sent in the following comment under an anonymous Guest Post: ' Sent in by someone I know. ' Delia this sentence has to stop once and for all. All those who want to hide their name are not worth a pinch of salt. Quite apart from the abrasiveness which seems to be [...]

Correction uploaded at 10:57 of 05/06/2019. Jean Pierre Debono published a redacted scan of a deposit that appears to be his monthly salary into what he says is his bank account. I don’t blame him. Stories have been making the rounds that he’s somehow raking it in and that he’s clinging onto some pot of [...]

Following on from an article recently published in The Shift News, this is the first part of a series by Lizzie Eldridge arising from an interview with an ex-staff member at the American University of Malta (AUM). The series pursues a range of links and pathways triggered by this interview. There’s an absurdist play by [...]

Starting this afternoon this website is publishing a series by Lizzie Eldridge on the American University of Malta. This first series of 6 in-depth articles will examine the context of the licensing of this self-described academic institution and how the artistic impressions of students studying in the sun dockside in Bormla have so far remained [...]

Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb planted by hired assassins in her car. She was killed because of the work she was doing uncovering crime and corruption. The government says this was not an assassination. That alone is a reason to protest. There are many others. The vigil is called by Repubblika, [...]

Sent in by someone I know. I should add that guest posts like this one are unsolicited and coming from people whose direct engagement with politics is limited to voting and being aware of what's going on. Adrian Delia in his Times Talk interview today says he's 'frustrated' with MPs who slag him off. It's [...]

Times Talk is interviewing Adrian Delia again tomorrow. We only saw snippets of the interview today and it doesn’t look like they’re going to discuss the Council of Europe report that found Malta’s rule of law crashing around our ears, or the PN’s economic policy, or climate change, or Adrian Delia’s solution to the intractable [...]

In a shocking response to the Byline Times a person identified by that website as the “head of communications for the Maltese government” said the word “‘assassination’ is a very politically loaded word, which I refute”. Though the government has up to now avoided using the term “assassination” when describing the killing of Daphne Caruana [...]

If you haven’t seen Jean Pierre Debono’s “explanation”, do so before you read this. He has written his denials, his excuses and his explanations such as they are and I published them in their entirety because fairness demands it. But here’s the thing. The credibility of Jean Pierre Debono’s ‘apology’ rests on the assumption that [...]

12:49 Adds Jean Pierre Debono's letter In a brief Net News post, the PN announced Jean Pierre Debono told Adrian Delia he will "not accept the Parliamentary seat that was assigned to him in a democratic process within the structures of the PN". Net News said they would provide further information at a later stage. [...]

It’s meltdown in the PN as all branches that are not in control of Jean Pierre Debono are lining up to disown his co-option to Parliament. Deputy Leader Robert Arrigo used very harsh terms to describe both Jean Pierre Debono and his wife Kristy Debono. “They are not sheep,” he wrote. “They’re wolves”. MPs and [...]

Two Gozitan voters have filed a judicial protest against the Nationalist Party calling on them not to co-opt Jean Pierre Debono to the Parliamentary seat vacated by David Stellini. The voters, Mariella Mercieca and Daniel Cilia, said in their letter that the vote on Saturday morning that chose Jean Pierre Debono over Gozitan candidate Kevin [...]

The thing that you have to keep in mind with the current crisis in the PN is just how unproductive it is. A crisis that yields results is painful but necessary. But what’s happening is as pointless as hair-gel on me. Consider that Joseph Muscat is not having to face criticism on a Council of [...]

The headline of Times of Malta’s report of Adrian Delia’s Fidel Castro-style radio-tirade of this morning says he — Adrian Delia — ‘blames the “establishment” for the ongoing chaos in the PN, and he warns his patience is running out. He was defending the party’s decision to co-opt Jean Pierre Debono to Parliament saying that [...]

This was sent in by a current member of the Executive Committee of the PN who was present at yesterday's meeting. On Saturday, Mark Anthony Sammut submitted his resignation from his post as President of the PN’s Executive Committee. His decision stems from the fact that none of those holding a leadership role within the [...]

Sent in by someone known to me. So, we’re back to square one. Adrian Delia’s party took a thrashing. The local council results are more representative of the true situation with Labour securing 58% of the votes (there wasn’t the vote-pulling power of the two MEPs). This was a direct message to Adrian Delia and his [...]