I wrote earlier about a speech Labour’s Randolph Debattista gave in Sofia extolling the virtues of a war against disinformation. Just three weeks ago Edward Zammit Lewis gave a speech in Luxembourg preaching about the sanctity of judicial independence to ensure the rule of law. That’s while his Labour Party leader was publicly assaulting a [...]

Parliament issued a statement announcing that Malta has been admitted as an Associate Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO. Two Maltese MPs are in Sofia for Malta’s first time attending the Assembly. Randolph De Battista, Labour Party CEO, was one of them and he spoke about “concrete action to fight disinformation and to attack [...]

Edward Scicluna may be a professor of economics. But his rare comments to the media, apparently thoroughly rehearsed, are completely unhindered by logic, reason, decency, and self-awareness. One would have hoped that his ‘famous last words’ would be how the FIAU reports about Konrad Mizzi’s shenanigans were merely “written to be leaked”. Alas, Edward Scicluna, [...]

Photo: NEWZ The classical distinction between a civil case and a criminal case is that the parties to a civil case are private persons, individuals or corporate entities seeking to settle a dispute or obtain satisfaction, the one from the other. One of the parties in a criminal case is the state, the [...]

The prosecutor had been reading the charges for almost an hour. He droned through the cumbersome lists, the company numbers, the formulaic repetitions that cannot be described any more helpfully than boring. He stopped periodically to sip some water. Next to him, an assistant prosecutor followed on her print out. Sometimes the paging on the [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Daphne could only be killed once. We who remain alive must continue to breathe the poison of impunity. Impunity. Immunity. The privilege that Muscat claims, and Robert Abela – ever his faithful attorney – argues for, which allows a former prime minister suspected of laundering proceeds of [...]

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