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Updated: 22 May 2021 Lizzie Eldridge wrote a long series of articles called Tales from the Land of Serenity. She had some of them published on this website. The necessarily incomplete works meandered through the most recent list of superficially unconnected minor catastrophes that make for life on these Islands, peppered with comforting expletives to [...]

That will be the fourth anniversary of this blog.

Carmelo Abela, staggeringly, called yesterday for Jason Azzopardi to resign. Jason Azzopardi was not an HSBC employee when the 2010 botched heist happened. He did not have access to the machine that printed access cards used in the robbery. He did not give evidence in the investigation and then told the press he never had. [...]

How endearing of the prime minister yesterday to complain the Nationalist Party did not file comments on the cannabis liberalisation proposal. I don’t speak for the Nationalist Party. But neither does Robert Abela, or he shouldn’t be in any case. The government’s consultation initiatives are a bit of a rare joke. Rare because they almost [...]

Read this detailed retrospective by French national radio on the aftermath of the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia and the November/December 2019 protests that brought down Joseph Muscat. Click here for the story by Sylvain Tronchet.

The edifice Charles Polidano, iċ-Ċaqnu, built opposite the Lufthansa hangar has been empty for years. It is the most visible of a whole range of buildings he constructed in Ħal Farruġ without permits and in breach of planning rules. Some estimates say that in Ħal Farruġ there are some 64,000 square metres of land underneath [...]

Marlene Farrugia yesterday tabled a private members’ bill to remove “the procurement of a miscarriage” – that’s abortion – from the list of crimes in our laws. These are the last few weeks and months of Marlene Farrugia’s colourful Parliamentary career and she must have wanted to leave with a bang. She is probably looking [...]

  NGO Repubblika and the government today agreed to pay their respective costs settling a court case about judicial appointments that reached the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Speaking in court this morning, Repubblika’s lawyer Jason Azzopardi, said that as a result of Repubblika’s lawsuit, four new judges were appointed last April without any [...]

Christian Grima complained on Facebook that campaigners for Truth and Justice did not rush to him in solidarity after Joseph Muscat sued him for telling Michelle Muscat “(Lil Daphne) splodiha żewġek.” (Your husband blew Daphne up). I have seen this post by Lovin Malta’s Chris Peregin that wonders what could have possessed Joseph Muscat to [...]

Two witnesses from Libya finally managed to testify over video in the case for the defence of the former editor of The Malta Independent on Sunday who is facing a libel suit by Neville Gafà for reporting that Gafà extorted money from victims of the Libyan civil war seeking medical care here. The two witnesses [...]

My brave, conscientious officers of the law, if you want people to trust you, don’t use the phrase “police are your friends”, for it only makes you sound authoritarian, egoistical and condescending – instead remind them “police are humans too” – acknowledge your mistakes and work towards correcting them so that you can truly become [...]

Times of Malta reporters Ivan Martin and Jacob Borg asked Carmelo Abela what he had told the police when they questioned him after the 2010 HSBC Bank heist. He worked there at the time and though he would not explicitly confirm it, the journalists suggested he had access to the machine that generated passes uses [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: On June 6, 2021, Midsea Books is publishing The Third Siege of Malta, a book I wrote to recall the highlights of this battle we have been fighting. But the book has no ending. The siege is still on.

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "The germ of independent thinking has taken root in this country and it will not weed itself out of existence. No doubt there’s a desire to win. But there’s a greater desire to remain honest with oneself. Politics may be the art of the possible. But for [...]

This long piece was completed in December 2020 and first published in Epoch No. 2 'Aftermath', Spring 2021 (Epoch Press). Published again here with permission. A journalist is blown to pieces in her car on a road not far from you. Everything is close to everything else on an island full of dust and noise and [...]

Sent in by someone known to me. It only took six months for Bernard Grech’s mask to slip.  He is not better than Adrian Delia, maybe not worse, but certainly not better, for yesterday’s dealings with Jason Azzopardi and Adrian Delia was not an exercise in safeguarding the Nationalist Party and democracy in the long [...]

Find the time to watch this new documentary called "Humanigration - On the other shore of the sea", a film by TotalEU Production on migration and the impact of Covid-19 on new illegal routes. The film is a journalistic journey between the main dimensions that are currently shaping migrants' experiences in their travels to Europe [...]