In spite of the mindless optimism of the government, we are nearing just the state of covid consequence that last March the government said it wanted to avoid. The mantra at the time was about managing the rate of contagion so that it is kept at levels that we can manage. “We” is neither you, [...]

In this article, I am presenting a financial analysis of Dizz Manufacturing Limited for the year ended 31 December 2019. The company was registered on 19 November 2013 and is part of the Dizz Group of Companies Limited. The audited financial statements were signed on 15 June 2020. The principal activity of the company is [...]

This morning Keith Schembri was arrested for the third time in less than a year. It is hard to remember now that a year ago today Keith Schembri was the most powerful man in the country. A year ago today the world collapsed around his ears. Please read again my post from the 11 November. [...]

As always, if you prefer to read the article instead of listening to the podcast, scroll down for the transcript. Manuel Delia · PODCAST: We've Had Our Fun With Jason's Pilgrimage Now let’s focus on what matters. Konrad Mizzi spent the night in jail last night because the police are not done asking him questions [...]

Would I rather not have to defend Jason Azzopardi about his trip to Tel Aviv in 2017? Yes. But mostly because it’s a waste of time. Those who condemned him for it will not care for reasons not to. The inconvenient thing about Jason Azzopardi as that he is both an MP and a lawyer [...]

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy While the whole world [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "The whole point of this is that it is true that every European member state has the power to decide who is to be the citizen of their country. But that does not mean they can ignore what the rest of the world understands at the conceptual [...]

This statement was issued by Repubblika earlier today. Repubblika is deeply concerned at the government’s management of the education sector during the covid pandemic.  The greatest concern is that the government's failures are resulting in the provision of unequal quality of education to children which varies according to the category of school they attend - [...]

The last time I criticised Christian Grima I did so unforgivably clumsily. It was a line dropped thoughtlessly in the middle of speaking of something else and I referred to him in the same sentence as Simon Mercieca, the guy who must be about as pleased with the result of the US presidential election as [...]

Malta's Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation and international media freedom NGOs Article 19, the Association of European Journalists, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, the European Federation of Journalists, Free Press Unlimited, the International Press Institute and OBC Transeuropa backed Ivan Martin after news that lawyers for Yorgen Fenech attempted to bribe him emerged. [...]

Superiority complex is a term used to describe people who compensate for feelings of inferiority (feeling like they're less than other people, not as good as others, worthless, etc.) by acting in ways that make them appear superior. They do this because controlling others may help them feel less personally inadequate. Yesterday you were excellent and replied in [...]

Cyrus Engerer made it to the European Parliament at last. It was a long walk that started back in 2014 and now that we've been made to watch this timelapse movie, here we are having to watch that stupid smirk on his face, thankfully behind a mask. When June 2018, Cyrus Engerer announced he would [...]

Read this article by Roger Casale and Piotr Maciej Kaczyński on the religious 'justification' for racist policies on migration. It's written in the aftermath of the killing of Samuel Paty and discusses the distinction between the measured, emotional and justified reaction of French President Emmanuel Macron and the reaction of populists who want to overwhelm the debate [...]

I would like to raise awareness about a situation which, unfortunately, many seem to be taking in their stride.  It pains me to see how people all over the world have come to accept injustice passively and it pains me to see how many people seem inclined to bow their head to authorities without questioning [...]

The university rector wrote to graduating students telling them that after hearing from the student union, graduation ceremonies will be postponed to a time when it’s safe enough to have them. We have consulted with KSU who, in turn, discussed the matter with representatives of all the student organisations. The majority of student societies were [...]

If Alex Muscat gave the entire picture to parliament anticipating Malta’s line of argument in defending against the Commission’s intervention on Malta’s passports-sales scheme, the government’s case will be quite simple: the matter is not for European institutions to decide. “Brussels cannot decide what Malta does with its citizenship,” Alex Muscat said. He didn’t defend [...]

I’m not a court of law (and neither, incidentally is the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry). Therefore I’m under no obligation to restrain myself from inferring anything from someone’s “choice not to answer a question” in order not to incriminate themselves. I mean, ask me any time if I’m a fraudster, and after some form of [...]

The NGO Repubblika has today asked for donors to support a constitutional case brought against the government and the army by victims of the Easter Massacre, when government held back the rescue of migrants stranded in Malta’s rescue area at sea. The constitutional case was brought by relatives of 2 of 12 victims who drowned [...]

Money don't get everything, it's true What it don't get, I can't use Now give me money That's what I want That's what I want, yeah That's what I want - ‘Money’ by The Beatles Since its inception in 1995, the Corruption Perception Index, Transparency International’s flagship report has become the leading global indicator of [...]

We read in the Times of Malta that a journalist of theirs, Ivan Martin, was offered a payment of several hundred euro presumably to influence his reporting on the case of Yorgen Fenech. That’s because the money was offered to him by Gianluca Caruana Curran at a meeting where Yorgen Fenech’s other lawyer Charles Mercieca [...]