Photo: Newsbook We have Joseph Muscat’s version of what his conversation with the police this afternoon was about. Apparently they disturbed his daily yoga routine to ask him questions he’s already answered and to assure him he’s not under investigation. He didn’t seem annoyed they didn’t just send him a Hallmark card though. [...]

As the tabloids used to say, you heard it here first. Joseph Muscat has been called in to questioning under caution by the police in connection with the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Moments later it hit the front pages of all on line media in Malta. Of course it did. A former prime minister [...]

In 23 years I watched Xarabank some 4 times. I was on the show 3 of those times and did badly every time. The fourth time was the show when they had people speaking for candidates in the PN leadership election who wanted to replace Eddie Fenech Adami. That’s 16 years ago now. Like many, [...]

Former prime minister Joseph Muscat is expected in the coming hours to visit the police headquarters to answer police questions regarding the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. He is expected to be placed under caution before questioning starts. He'll be asked to respond to information provided to the police by Yorgen Fenech, who has been [...]

The debacle started a little over a month ago when positive coronavirus cases started to dwindle. The health professionals warned that a second wave of covid-19 would hit Malta. Prime Minister Robert Abela rubbished the warnings claiming that “waves are in the sea”. He even accused doctors of scaremongering the public because they were envious [...]

118 people were about to drown. 5 of them were children. 1 a new-born baby. The Armed Forces of Malta were dispatched to rescue them. They were saved from certain death and brought ashore. And the only emotion Security Minister Byron Camilleri could express in a video he posted was anger. It’s not just the [...]

Manuel Delia · One Danger This is not a “reply” to One TV. I’m always bored by people conducting their personal crusades and speaking on their own behalf about nothing but themselves. I would hate to bore myself. But this is a commentary about their conduct. I have for some time been a critic of [...]

The curious incident of the vanishing, reappearing crucifix sums up our country neatly. A group of devotees erected a crucifix on a prominent escarpment for the Easter festivities. They meant the symbol for themselves but if it had been facing south they could call it our own Statute of Liberty, a beacon seen from the [...]

The main cast and crew of Jurassic World clearly do not get their news from One TV. They missed the memo that says that Malta has the best response against the coronavirus. That there's really nothing to worry about and spinning in Ragusa is the appropriate behaviour if you're the commander in chief responding to [...]

On Sunday 9 August, a 19-year-old was seriously injured in a fight on the Coast Road. Police said that the 19-year-old from Ħamrun was involved in a fight with two men. A hard object was used in the fight. On the same day, perhaps in a related incident, a Spanish woman suffered serious injuries in [...]

The Broadcasting Authority has tried to justify its decision to order TVM to switch off the cameras when journalists start asking questions to ministers during covid-19 press conferences. It said the transmission of press conferences was a public service because it allowed people to acquire information on the pandemic. But “unexpected” questions provoke a political [...]

The effort to stay awake is exhausting. Electric shocks start out as torture. But now our body aches when the shocking stops. This is a sample from only this week, the slowest news week after Christmas, of the ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’ moments we’ve had. The Broadcasting Authority ruled that journalists create imbalance [...]

Tort ta’ Simon Navarra ser jgħid lil tal-One is-segwaċi, minflok jammetti li l-gvern inkapaċi: “Il-virus mhux miċ-Ċina ġiet, imma mill-kċina ta’ Simon, kif kien qed jgħalli l-brussels sprouts mal-ispinaċi.”   Par Joseph L-eks Kummissarju staqsewh, “X’inhu l-fattur ‘R’?” “Kieku b'Joseph no problem, għax dak kellu par! Dan xi storjella ta’ Marmarà? Qalli 'No Action Needed' [...]

Cosa Nostra is the Italian mafia organisation that originated in Sicily in the 19th century and forms an association of criminal groups that share a common code of conduct. The basic group is called cosca, a family or clan. Each family takes over a territory, usually a village or town in which it operates. Although [...]

MATSECs should be dropped this year and replaced with teacher assessments While Robert Abela was telewanking from his watery home off the coast of the Ragusano, 16- and 18-year-old students have spent their summers in anguish and anxiety, fighting the heat and their nerves to keep on top of their preparations for their high school [...]

Peter Grech’s resignation letter posed no risk of destabilising the country and its administration, so President George Vella published it. No destabilisation will come of a moping, whingeing, epistle of self-pity. Peter Grech dumped us with “It’s not me. It’s you.” In brief, he said the job was making him sick and he needed to [...]

The main issues and points of divergence clogging the re-emergence of the PN as an alternative government amount to party renewal. This needs to be the prevalent theme of the leadership campaign. An electorate would not place its trust in a party that for long years has been plagued with its own internal disputes revolving [...]

CBS 60 minutes replayed this week, their film on Malta and the aftermath of the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia. They had first broadcast the film in December 2018. It's worth watching again because you realise that Malta in December 2018 was a different country. Joseph Muscat was still untouchable and he was smug enough [...]

Sent in from a senior pathologist known to me who must remain anonymous for reasons I understand. Like everyone else on the island, I awaited with bated breath (not) yesterday for the mitigation measures against covid-19 to be announced. I will not say too much about our prime minister because it has all been said [...]