“A week is a long time in politics.” The quotation is attributed to Harold Wilson, and was probably first said at a lobby briefing for journalists at the time of the sterling crisis in 1964. Interestingly, as Nigel Rees writes in Brewer’s Quotations records, Wilson himself, when asked just after his retirement as Prime Minister in 1977, [...]

This is not going to be a long one. Yeah right, I hear you say. My daughter uses this turn of phrase that she didn’t pick up from me. She ends sentences of muted outrage with “and I can’t even”. It’s more the sort of sentence you’re likely to read on Buzz Feed but here’s [...]

This year's Daphne Caruana Galizia Memorial Lecture had to be delivered on line because of covid restrictions. It was no less compelling. The event was hosted by #occupyjustice, Repubblika and this website. Here's a recording. https://youtu.be/sZlX4iafBjs

We already had an idea by and large what was in it. But today parliament officially published George Hyzler’s report into Joseph Muscat’s orders to the tourism authority to hire Konrad Mizzi as a consultant just as he was resigning from being the minister overseeing it. The report’s findings are damning. Joseph Muscat phoned Johann [...]

Why are police officers who happen to be women still specified as "Women Police Constables" or sergeants? Look at this: The specific designation "WPC" was originally appended because when women were first allowed to join the police, they weren't allowed to do all the men could. Maybe the best story about this is how female [...]

I’m reading what Keir Starmer is saying in the UK about the coronavirus spread. He’s arguing the UK should lock down for two weeks in order to break the spread of the virus: halt it, push it back, bring it down to manageable numbers before reopening again. This is because numbers – of infected people, [...]

Raphael Vassallo interviewed Adrian Delia and published the exchange last Sunday. In the interview Raphael Vassallo asked Adrian Delia how he feels about me saying he should resign from Parliament. It was a strange question to ask if Raphael Vassallo was referring to what I wrote about what Adrian Delia should do after losing the [...]

Simon Mercieca delights in repeating adjectives I use to describe him because apparently being called a twerp by me is some sort of flattery. I’m running out of adjectives and I really thought I had an inexhaustible reserve of those. As part of his campaign on behalf of Yorgen Fenech, he unleashed yesterday a verbal [...]

“The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.” Chadwick Boseman Our prime minister used to do bodybuilding. There are many photos of his physique on social media. He has a near perfect body, the body [...]

Updated 15 October 2020 at 07:20 Link here to a response by right of reply from Jean-Philippe Chetcuti. Cyprus has announced on Twitter today it is no longer selling its passports. That happened after controversy that followed a sting operation by journalists of Al Jazeera last August who had the Speaker of the Cypriot Parliament [...]

Some people argue that journalists should be licensed, like lawyers or engineers, so that people who read or watch their work know they are qualified to do it and if they conduct themselves unprofessionally their licence is withdrawn and they are prevented from working anymore. The argument goes that there is so much fake news [...]

An application for a collective action, brought by more than 620 claimants, has been filed before Malta’s Civil Courts against C-Planet (IT Solutions) Limited for ​breaching data protection laws​. The initiative for the collective action was led by the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation and Repubblika. The application requests the Court to quantify and award the [...]

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!” - Tennessee Williams Pinocchio is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio written in 1883 by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio was carved as a wooden puppet by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a [...]

Manuel Delia · An Interview with Daphne In 1998, Daphne was a young journalist in her early 30s. She had already made her mark by then. She had been in journalism less than 10 years and yet by then journalism in Malta was already very different than when she first stepped in. Eddie Iles is [...]

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“I swear by Almighty God that the evidence I shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” The evidence coming out from the hearings of the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry is mind boggling and quite astonishing. It shows to what depth the core values of some people have descended, [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Tell yourself from a year ago that Fenech would be charged with masterminding Daphne’s murder, Schembri would resign before the first of multiple arrests, Mizzi would be booted out of the Labour Party, Silvio Valletta would be forced to retire in disgrace, Lawrence Cutajar would be fired [...]

A small number of passionate Adrian Delia’s supporters have decided to resign from their official roles within the Nationalist Party. It is their right and one cannot blame or criticise them. This is a free country and the Nationalist Party is a democratic institution. I am not talking of those who chose theatrics and took [...]

The Bank of Valletta’s last correspondent bank for USD transactions has given notice it wants out. BOV said it will look for alternatives. It won’t be an easy task. These days the feasibility of our existence as a financial services jurisdiction hangs on a precarious thread. The government is doing everything it can to look [...]