A staged interview asked Rosianne Cutajar what she thought her worst defect was.   Here’s a list of things she didn’t mention. Shagging a business tycoon and accepting his gifts even though damning evidence emerged that he bribed politicians to get public contracts. Collecting a hefty commission from a property sale (involving the [...]

Malta Today’s James Debono yesterday published an analysis of the planning permit of the Żejtun country villa Robert Abela owns outside the development zone. And yet the front pages of today’s newspapers and websites are about Bernard Grech explaining why he had details about his villa in a Mosta residential street sanctioned by the PA. [...]

By the time the apparatchiks at the Labour Party had reached number 964 in their record-breaking list of electoral promises, they must have felt the target of 1,000 was unreachable. You know the phrase they threw everything but the kitchen sink? Perhaps they held back on the sink, but you'll be comforted to know they [...]

Sent in by someone I know. The subject matter will suggest that from my point of view publishing this piece is self-serving. However that alone is not enough reason not to carry the piece. So please take into account the fact that I was prominent in the pre-2013 transport reform being defended by the writer [...]

The Shift News reports that on the eve of a fund raiser in Gozo Robert Abela met Gozitan construction contractors in an event hosted by Joseph Portelli. The next day's telethon, quite obviously a front to launder the cash given illegally by the contractors to the prime minister, claimed receiving over €1,000,000. Days later Joseph [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "It will be an imperative duty of this community to make sure the poor, the homeless, the people sleeping in cars and toilet-less garages, the migrants still finding their feet are sheltered from this eminently foreseeable shockwave ahead. They are a nudge away from homelessness and malnourishment [...]

  Good people’s capacity to seek the good in bad people is infinite. Commenters overflowing with empathy were trying to excuse Joe Debono Grech’s utterances at a Labour Party campaign event. He’s senile. He was joking. He didn’t think it through. He wasn’t speaking for the party. Joe Debono Grech is not some [...]

Will you please stop using children as props for your electioneering. Sometimes it's even more obvious they don't like it. Why do we think they have the right to force them into adult rituals that are of no benefit or interest to them?

I’ve been speaking to people who work in advertising to try to understand the imbalance of marketing resources and capability between the two organisations we still describe “as the two main parties”. A “two-party system” implies some sort of balance and equality of arms, a neck and neck struggle where the sides take turns winning [...]

While the Labour Party and its candidates break the rules and flood your online space with their advertising (see this earlier article on why that’s a bad thing), Google cashes the money. They’re not going to put a stop to this unless enough people ask them. Here’s how you can do your bit. When you [...]

Every time you go to YouTube, every website that takes Google Ads, all over Facebook, mostly wherever you are online, you are repeatedly assaulted by Labour Party adverts. There are a few PN adverts on top of that. When the campaign started, we could have said that was overkill. We could think they might haveunderestimated [...]

Watch this point of view film shot by Newsbook’s Monique Agius chasing the prime minister to ask him to react to the near unanimous vote in the European Parliament calling for the abolishing of Malta’s passport sales scheme. His 4 Labour MEPs were the only Socialists to vote against the motion. At any time of [...]

Members of the Ukrainian community living in Malta have told this website they have received warnings from Maltese government officials to stay away from protests for peace called by NGO Repubblika. Community leaders have received warnings that should they be seen at protests called by Repubblika outside the Russian Embassy in Kappara, or elsewhere, they [...]

I had an uncredited cameo appearance at yesterday leaders’ debate at university. It wasn’t so much an appearance as it was a mention. The moderator, Yasmine Ellul (the star turn of the event) asked the leaders about the implementation of the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry recommendations. In that context Bernard Grech referred to the now [...]

Photo: Lovin Malta There were various opinions about who might have done better in yesterday’s leaders’ debate at university. But there’s no controversy over who did worst. Most of the audience was often on its feet, arms raised, shouting Viva l-Lejber like the audience of the daily newsreels in 1984. At the sight [...]

Times of Malta carries three headlines today on its court news page. “Man charged with sexually molesting estranged wife.” “Husband accused of arson attack on van of his ex’s lover.” “Had sex with a minor girl and filmed it.” Yesterday there was another report. “Rapist gets nine years in jail for ‘cowardly, inhuman’ act in [...]

There was a bit of a happy ending when a Labour Party supporter posted on his Facebook post a photo with Times of Malta’s Mark Laurence Zammit to whom he had apologised after treating him aggressively on the side-lines of a Labour Party campaign event. At Labour’s event, when the guy saw Mark Laurence Zammit [...]

There’s something disturbingly dystopian about this image. As part of his election campaign, Labour candidate Ray Abela, handed out VR headsets to schoolchildren. Here he is posing in a campaign photo with a row of young pupils wearing his branded headsets. In between the covering of their eyes, and the masks down to beneath their [...]

The piece is written by the same author of this other Guest Post that looked at Labour’s chase for the hunters’ vote. This post looks at what the other side is doing. The Nationalist Party never had the hunters’ vote. Most hunters always voted Labour. So, in a way it is a bit of a [...]

Sent in by someone known to me. What people suspect all along, is usually true. Il-qasba ma ċċaqċaqx għalxejn, as we say. Many have long suspected that the most useless Environment Minister Malta ever had, was on the side of hunters. We know it officially now as he has been endorsed by none other than [...]