Here's a Facebook conversation to represent all others. This tribalism is also how we tell the FATF we'll never fix what we get wrong because we never think Labour could get anything wrong.
Manuel Delia · The Blame Game Whilst hoping Clyde Caruana pulls it off in the last minute and saves the country from grey-listing by the FATF, his cabinet colleagues are still getting ready for the worst. Mind you, that doesn’t necessarily mean what it should mean. If they haven’t undertaken the reforms that were necessary [...]
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were ‘where’ and ‘what’ and ‘when’ and ‘why’ and ‘how’ and ‘who’. - Rudyard Kipling It’s been nearly 6 months, since December 2020 when the Parliamentary Secretary for Equality Rosianne Cutajar and Charles Farrugia, one of her political aides, were exposed [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "The magistrate presiding over the compilation of evidence against Fenech heard a complaint from his lawyers after Times of Malta published conversations Fenech had had with Anton Attard, who sought advice on fixing betting odds to manipulate voting in an international singing competition. The report came in [...]
Reactions to the by now infamous “she dished out oranges in bags to old people” police report have been mixed. The episode wasn’t helped by some headlines written by people who judged the initiative as trivial and a good opportunity to poke fun at the Repubblika activists who, annoyingly, are too often right and rarely [...]
What is happening at the Public Accounts Committee would be an outrage on our democracy if we had a democracy. Gianella Demarco is Paul Apap Bologna’s lawyer. She works for him and speaks on his behalf. He’s not on trial there. He’s just a witness. He should not need legal representation or some form of [...]
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Politicians looking to improve their chances of getting elected look for spouses with a surname towards the beginning of the phone book. That will allow them to attach their political chances to the buoy of a name like Abela, Agius or Apap. Candidates are listed alphabetically on the ballot sheet which means that for voters [...]
Manuel Delia · The World Will End In 2012 All those Joseph Muscat-worshipping idiots out there who think it’s a good thing we can never go back to 2012, have no idea what’s hitting them in 2022. Like Evarist Bartolo I don’t have a crystal ball. I don’t know if the Americans will have their [...]
Jason Micallef, who heads both the Labour Party's propaganda vehicles and is responsible for "culture in the capital city", reacted angrily to #occupyjustice's protest last night in his precious ramshackle allotment at the entrance to the city built by gentlemen and run by a fatuous, asinine, over-promoted gardener. I was about to write something [...]
The secret of humour is surprise. – Aristotle Prime Minister Robert Abela, interviewed on One Radio, said that the environment is one of the government’s top priorities. He said that the proof is in his government’s decision to commission a new interconnector – which according to Aaron Farrugia, our environment minister, will use hydrogen. So [...]
Issued by #occupyjustice last night: #occupyjustice activists ‘planted’ placards in the Republic Street planters in front of the Parliament buildings. The slogans included: Fil-Parlament ma jikbrux fjuri, imma ħdura hawn kemm trid Ħaxix biex jaħbu l-ħaxi Grazzi Sur Jason Micallef, ħloqtilna spazju biex inwaslu leħinna Ministru Ian Borg, ħalli siġra mġiddma! and It-tieni interconnector? Mela l-Electrogas x’nambuha? Mr [...]
George Vella has been reacting a bit touchily to what he clearly perceives as lèse-majesté. Yesterday he issued a petulant statement reacting to a response by 2% of a random sample in a survey that said they perceived corruption in the President’s office. George Vella went all “fejn huma l-provi?” and told the anonymous responders [...]
Civil rights NGO Repubblika today published a document with a raft of recommendations to fight corruption in elections, particularly the abuse of the power of incumbency by candidates who serve as ministers and the ruling party. The NGO underlined in its report existing legislation that is mostly ignored. These include rules against the use of [...]
The Transparency International survey asking a sample of 500 Maltese respondents questions about how they perceive corruption, turns up some perplexing results. Well, let me feign perplexity. It looks better than embarrassment. More than half of the respondents of the survey said they thought that it is not possible to expose corruption one is aware [...]
Edward Mallia sent the following as a comment under my post on Robert Abela's statement about wanting the environment to be his most important pillar to make Malta "the best in the world". I commented in my post that just as the prime minister was speaking about Malta's environment being made world-best within 10 years, [...]
Watch this video on Owen Bonnici’s Facebook page. This fuss fest would have made Leni Riefenstahl proud. And it likely cost a pretty penny. It obviously also made TVM headlines. The national broadcaster reported this “news” breathlessly pushing up the bar to a point where it will be very hard for them to emphasise enough [...]