Like modern democracy, the reckoning with the race-based caste system came first out of America. The depth of the present crisis is shown by the fact that the debate is not simply about addressing existing inequalities. It is instead searching for their roots in history. It is seeking a reinterpretation of the totems handed down [...]
This is our education minister showing off his cooking skills. Zalzett mir-roża u fixxfinkers. Out of the packet, on to a barbecue big enough to cook him and on to the plate. There’s nothing wrong with a quick meal of overcooked ultra-processed food out of shiny packets once in a while. But to show it [...]
Someone I know sent this to the prime minister earlier today: Prime Minister: I refer to the article Lovin’ Malta just published regarding the use of vouchers in strip clubs. I already had my reservations as to whether this blanket approach of giving vouchers to people, regardless of their income, was an effective way of [...]
George Santayana in 1905 wrote that ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ The quote was slightly changed in a speech by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons in 1948 when he said that ‘those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.’ History is not written [...]
I’m afraid she’s right. Mandy Mallia, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s sister, says what many of us where thinking at the sight of over-cooked pasta beads with tinned cocktail sausages. Well, one of the things we were thinking anyway. Mandy Mallia had the elegance not to comment about the food. I don’t. Whatever that was, it looked [...]
Edward Scicluna is being grossly disingenuous in his interview with Times of Malta today. He says the fact that there is an inquiry into his conduct and the conduct of all government ministers using public funds to fund propaganda on social media on their personal Facebook page is a “farce”. He resorts first to the [...]
Opposition MPs are boycotting the parliamentary grilling of the nominee for the police chief job. You can see where they’re coming from. At least I can, because they’ve been getting some flak for the decision they took. As I see it, if you know you’re in a setup, the best you can do is walk [...]
By the end of 11 June 1940, World War II claimed the lives of the first 18 victims gunned down by enemy fire. Some of them were children. Just after sunrise an attack on St Elmo crushed the first lives. The air raid warning would sound seven times that harrowing, confusing day. The island’s poorly [...]
The judge who presided on Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad’s trial has warned prosecutors they could face disciplinary action for botching the trial of the Iranian man with a St Kitts and Nevis passport. In a ruling in response to the US government’s request to drop the case against Ali Sadr, Judge Alison Nathan ordered prosecutors [...]
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had granted migrants aboard the boat illegally pushed back to Libya protection pending a review of their application for asylum, this website can confirm. The image shown is of one of several valid certificates seen by this website that were issued by the UNHCR to migrants that are [...]
Net TV published a photo of Konrad Mizzi stepping out of Malta International Airport. He could have had the polite self-respect of giving Angelo Gafà the time to have his nomination as police chief confirmed before flying in. Konrad Mizzi has been presenting medical certificates saying he was unfit to fly from the UK to [...]
Prison authorities are clamping down on leaks as a Newsbook report said that lockdown on prison grounds featured BBQs, parties and war-field style R&R that included illegal fireworks. This website has also seen photographs of prison staff consuming alcohol in parties on the prison grounds hosted by the prison director Alexander Dalli. The photos are [...]
Written and starring Lizzie Eldridge. https://youtu.be/RcGt1vx-rxA L'arte nel suo mistero, le diverse bellezze insiem confonde... Photo: Not Lawrence Cutajar.
It's not that we meant to sit on our laurels after Joseph Muscat resigned. But however sceptical we all intuitively felt, many people still thought Robert Abela deserved a chance to fulfil his promise of ensuring there's no impunity. Of course words come easy. His predecessor said he would leave no stone unturned even as [...]
Now that the Captain Morgan prisoners are on shore we can, for a moment, think a bit of our own sufferings. Just for a short while, mind you. Robert Abela has threatened to “fast track” asylum applications of these migrants. This does not mean they get to use the business lounge and skip the queue [...]
Activists from Repubblika gathered this afternoon outside Minister Byron Camilleri’s office demanding the Home Minister’s resignation. In a letter to the Minister handed in by Repubblika President Vicki Ann Cremona said Repubblika has had enough of discovering more scandals. “We are nearing a situation where we won’t have enough officials to investigate their colleague’s filth. [...]
A Dutch government investigation has found that the lawyer Malta’s government hired to convince the European Commission it was ok to sell its passports to people who never come here broke his university rules by not reporting his work for Malta. Dimitry Kochenov featured in a Dutch TV investigation last September which started the investigation [...]
MEPs in the European Parliament's Media Working Group wrote today to Christo Georgiev, owner of Malta's Satabank, now out of business, to warn him they are monitoring his SLAPP suits filed against this website and Times of Malta on reports into his business in Malta. "We have learnt that Satabank had been forced to cancel [...]
Remember all the talk about the world changing after Covid-19, that nothing will be the same again, that businesses that fail to restructure risk falling behind? Remember the comparison with the 1929 crash when giant businesses of the turn of the century shrivelled into husks? Remember the analogy of the oil crisis of the 1970s [...]