On migration and the public debate

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2021-06-24T17:33:47+02:00Thu, 24th Jun '21, 17:33|

This is a speech I delivered earlier today at the Crossroads Europe Conference on EU Migration and Asylum Policy and the Public Debate organised by the Union of European Federalists.   Thank you, Union of European Federalists for organising this important discussion today. As with every political question, the underlying determinant of how this political [...]

Not normal perhaps, but certainly expected.

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2021-06-24T15:54:45+02:00Thu, 24th Jun '21, 15:54|

This is how everything that goes wrong in the little universe inside the head of supporters of the Labour Party is explained. And I'm not sorry this sounds like it is suggesting that people who support the Labour Party have deficits for brains. If you're still supporting them, if you still think you can explain [...]

‘I agree with the PM who promised me I’ll never see a prison cell from the inside,’ says Joseph Muscat

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2021-06-24T14:08:14+02:00Thu, 24th Jun '21, 14:08|

Joseph Muscat only had one comment to Times of Malta. "I fully concur with the prime minister's comments." Mur fucking obsor. The first sign that this country has become serious about raking the shit will be when Joseph Muscat has reasons to disagree with the prime minister. Until then il-Kink is still il-Kink. Prosit Prim [...]

I mean, is this normal?

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2021-06-24T10:01:09+02:00Thu, 24th Jun '21, 10:01|

I sputtered 1,400 words this morning to explain why I think this country is not normal, but just look at this: Look at the person "liking" the message. Claire Cuschieri. That's the daughter of the president of Malta and the wife of Joseph Cuschieri, he who resigned as chief regulator of the financial services industry [...]

GUEST POST: Malta, Uganda, Yemen and Zimbabwe

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2021-06-24T09:20:44+02:00Thu, 24th Jun '21, 09:20|

Every country has the government it deserves – Joseph de Maistre Uganda is well-known for the grand-scale theft of public funds corruption involving public officials at all levels of society as well as widespread political patronage systems. Elite corruption in Uganda is through the benefaction system which has been aggravated by foreign aid. Aid has [...]

This country is not normal

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2021-06-24T07:09:18+02:00Thu, 24th Jun '21, 07:09|

If this had been a normal country there would be a political crisis right now. Grey-listing by the FATF is not something that happened to us. This is not some misfortune like an oil price crisis or an oil tanker leak or an earthquake. This is a catastrophic failure of policy by our political leaders. [...]

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