A fork lifter crushed a 68-year-old man working in a factory today. Last week two men died in separate occupational accidents. None of these died on a construction site. There’s a deafening lack of outrage at these industrial accidents that are killing men at an alarming rate. I say, alarming. No one seems to be [...]
Daphne Caruana Galizia was remembered by journalists meeting in Perugia today to hear testimonies on threats to media freedom in Europe and beyond. The below is my intervention at the meeting which was pre-recorded.
Journalists under threat of reprisals for their reporting are convening in Perugia today in a first of a series of events to promote the notion of a ‘European Charter for the Right to Information’. The charter is an initiative of the Italian free speech association Articolo 21 that is working with the Franciscan order to [...]
Scroll to 07:17 on this extract from the Joseph Muscat interview on TVM this week. The interviewer is about to ask a question about what Joseph Muscat did when he found out about Konrad Mizzi’s and Keith Schembri’s Panama companies. But Joseph Muscat thinks the question is different. He thinks he’s going to be asked [...]
Press Release Repubblika, #occupyjustice and manueldelia.com will be marking the third anniversary since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, renewing their call for truth and justice. In view of the Covid-19 restrictions, events will be live streamed and participants are invited to join online rather than in person to avoid mass gatherings. The following is [...]
Aaron Mifsud Bonnici. I grant you, I’m not exactly objective. My friend and fellow activist Pia Żammit sued it-Torċa for digging up a several years old backstage photo of her in costume precariously bearing swastikas. She was acting in a comedy -- ‘Allo! ‘Allo! -- pretending to be a member of the French resistance pretending [...]
Joseph Muscat said yesterday the inquiry report on kickbacks paid into a Pilatus Bank account held by Keith Schembri should be published. It doesn’t happen often that Joseph Muscat echoes something Simon Busuttil has already said. You will remember the inquiry started on the back of a 2017 complaint filed by Simon Busuttil, the legendary [...]
On the second floor of the PN headquarters there’s the office of its secretary general, in corporate terms the party's COO. The office is at the heart of the operational activity of the party. The secretary general’s office is surrounded by the offices of the senior party employees, advisors, organisers, administrators and communicators. It doesn’t [...]
Joseph Muscat is not a politician. He resigned from the premiership last January and even now he laments his broken heart. Now he’s quit parliament squandering half his terminal speech, shorter than most people’s weekly shopping list, to explain he doesn’t believe in pomp and circumstance. Which like much else he says is complete bull-shit. [...]
This blog has in the past featured some of the works by artist Joseph Farrugia whose dark, haunting drawings are explicit political statements allegorised in birds and monsters. They are stark projections of the horror we have experienced in this country in recent years. Or at least the horror we woke up to when Daphne [...]
Joseph Muscat, you, crowned as man of the year in organized crime and corruption, resigned in shame from Parliament on Monday 5 October. You had resigned from prime minister in January this year, after a whole month of almost daily protests by civil society led by Repubblika and #occupyjustice. May I remind you Joe, [...]
It’s too early to make assessments but we can speak of what we see. Bernard Grech has had a small number of public engagements since he won Saturday’s election. On Sunday he gave a sober run-down of his immediate plans for change. On Monday he published a short list of clear demands on his agenda [...]
I am a father of sons but also a father of a daughter. The first time my daughter heard of Daphne was right after Daphne had been killed. She was 7 at the time. She had gathered that I did something called 'blogging' and in the hours after news of Daphne's assassination struck us, my [...]
You can fetishise any historical figure, polish anyone's biography and make the worst people look good. If you have never heard of Benito Mussolini, the following collection of images will make you think of him as some heroic figure. If you're reading this and you have heard of Benito Mussolini and think he is a [...]
This was broadcast on Facebook yesterday.
Manuel Delia · That's not all folks Beneath the commonplace charm which many seemed to find appealing, Joseph Muscat is a bitter, small man with a chip on his shoulder the size of a boulder and the emotional complexity of Wile E. Coyote: self-proclaimed super genius, excited by his own cunning and surprised by the [...]
I wish I was a better man and could just ignore Edwin Vassallo, treating the miserable slug with the contempt that he deserves. On Saturday, I wrote an article to comment on the election in the Nationalist Party and among other things I said that I have learnt with time to take a less adulatory [...]
The Labour Party and the local suppliers of the energy contract that would eventually be known as Electrogas fixed the broad terms of the deal when the Labour Party was still in opposition. This suggests funding of the Labour Party by businessmen who would eventually be rewarded with a lucrative government contract. The suggestion is [...]
The Education Department is trying to manage fears about the possible spread of covid in schools by pretending it doesn’t exist. Several children have not stepped into a school yet and yet unconfirmed reports of positive testing amongst staff of several educational institutions are spreading all over social media. I’m not in the business of [...]
As predicted the Nationalist Party has a new leader, Bernard Grech. Saturday’s election result proved that all surveys pointing to his victory were correct. He won 69% of the tesserati vote. That is quite a feat, seeing that Robert Abela managed about 57% of the delegate vote in his electoral victory over Chris Fearne. A [...]