Time can bring you down Time can bend your knees Time can break your heart Have you begging, please. - Eric Clapton   Once again Robert Abela took centre stage. He always does it when there are good tidings. Tuesday week he took credit for il-Koħħu’s admission to being one of those who executed Daphne [...]

My wife got a call this morning on her mobile phone number. The number was withheld. "No Caller ID". The person who spoke to her asked for Mrs Delia and said she was calling from Owen Bonnici's office. Did she know Owen Bonnici has an office in Żurrieq? Would she like to visit him there? [...]

Chris Fearne yesterday waxed melodramatic because the Opposition challenged him with allegations that political and clientelistic interference was allowing people to skip the line while waiting for covid vaccination. While denying this was happening Chris Fearne went into a rage telling the Opposition Leader, that a member of the PN parliamentary group asked him to [...]

Sitting through the President’s national unity conference on Saturday I detected in the interventions of some people – though by no means in all – a recognition that Malta has reached extremes of divisiveness we all must make a conscious effort to crawl back from. Probably in a diplomatic effort to avoid disputes on interpretation [...]

This set of photos is by Jon Borg.  

Mario Cutajar responded to a speech Jason Azzopardi gave in Parliament yesterday where the MP alleged collusion between the civil service chief an the guy who headed the police force around 2013 to intimidate a senior civil servant into resigning. Cutajar's statement is 8 paragraphs long. Seven and a half paragraphs do not address the [...]

Updated 5 March 2o21, 12:35 There’s something disturbing in the government’s attitude to the pandemic. Unless you own a bar or operate a club that depends on the rental of a bar, there are no material ‘restrictions’ to ordinary life in spite of ever-growing numbers of infected. The tourism industry is on its knees. But [...]