I’m reading what Keir Starmer is saying in the UK about the coronavirus spread. He’s arguing the UK should lock down for two weeks in order to break the spread of the virus: halt it, push it back, bring it down to manageable numbers before reopening again. This is because numbers – of infected people, [...]
Raphael Vassallo interviewed Adrian Delia and published the exchange last Sunday. In the interview Raphael Vassallo asked Adrian Delia how he feels about me saying he should resign from Parliament. It was a strange question to ask if Raphael Vassallo was referring to what I wrote about what Adrian Delia should do after losing the [...]
Simon Mercieca delights in repeating adjectives I use to describe him because apparently being called a twerp by me is some sort of flattery. I’m running out of adjectives and I really thought I had an inexhaustible reserve of those. As part of his campaign on behalf of Yorgen Fenech, he unleashed yesterday a verbal [...]
Updated 15 October 2020 at 07:20 Link here to a response by right of reply from Jean-Philippe Chetcuti. Cyprus has announced on Twitter today it is no longer selling its passports. That happened after controversy that followed a sting operation by journalists of Al Jazeera last August who had the Speaker of the Cypriot Parliament [...]
Some people argue that journalists should be licensed, like lawyers or engineers, so that people who read or watch their work know they are qualified to do it and if they conduct themselves unprofessionally their licence is withdrawn and they are prevented from working anymore. The argument goes that there is so much fake news [...]
An application for a collective action, brought by more than 620 claimants, has been filed before Malta’s Civil Courts against C-Planet (IT Solutions) Limited for breaching data protection laws. The initiative for the collective action was led by the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation and Repubblika. The application requests the Court to quantify and award the [...]
Manuel Delia · An Interview with Daphne In 1998, Daphne was a young journalist in her early 30s. She had already made her mark by then. She had been in journalism less than 10 years and yet by then journalism in Malta was already very different than when she first stepped in. Eddie Iles is [...]
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From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Tell yourself from a year ago that Fenech would be charged with masterminding Daphne’s murder, Schembri would resign before the first of multiple arrests, Mizzi would be booted out of the Labour Party, Silvio Valletta would be forced to retire in disgrace, Lawrence Cutajar would be fired [...]
The Bank of Valletta’s last correspondent bank for USD transactions has given notice it wants out. BOV said it will look for alternatives. It won’t be an easy task. These days the feasibility of our existence as a financial services jurisdiction hangs on a precarious thread. The government is doing everything it can to look [...]
A fork lifter crushed a 68-year-old man working in a factory today. Last week two men died in separate occupational accidents. None of these died on a construction site. There’s a deafening lack of outrage at these industrial accidents that are killing men at an alarming rate. I say, alarming. No one seems to be [...]
Daphne Caruana Galizia was remembered by journalists meeting in Perugia today to hear testimonies on threats to media freedom in Europe and beyond. The below is my intervention at the meeting which was pre-recorded.
Journalists under threat of reprisals for their reporting are convening in Perugia today in a first of a series of events to promote the notion of a ‘European Charter for the Right to Information’. The charter is an initiative of the Italian free speech association Articolo 21 that is working with the Franciscan order to [...]
Scroll to 07:17 on this extract from the Joseph Muscat interview on TVM this week. The interviewer is about to ask a question about what Joseph Muscat did when he found out about Konrad Mizzi’s and Keith Schembri’s Panama companies. But Joseph Muscat thinks the question is different. He thinks he’s going to be asked [...]
Press Release Repubblika, #occupyjustice and manueldelia.com will be marking the third anniversary since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, renewing their call for truth and justice. In view of the Covid-19 restrictions, events will be live streamed and participants are invited to join online rather than in person to avoid mass gatherings. The following is [...]
Aaron Mifsud Bonnici. I grant you, I’m not exactly objective. My friend and fellow activist Pia Żammit sued it-Torċa for digging up a several years old backstage photo of her in costume precariously bearing swastikas. She was acting in a comedy -- ‘Allo! ‘Allo! -- pretending to be a member of the French resistance pretending [...]
Joseph Muscat said yesterday the inquiry report on kickbacks paid into a Pilatus Bank account held by Keith Schembri should be published. It doesn’t happen often that Joseph Muscat echoes something Simon Busuttil has already said. You will remember the inquiry started on the back of a 2017 complaint filed by Simon Busuttil, the legendary [...]
On the second floor of the PN headquarters there’s the office of its secretary general, in corporate terms the party's COO. The office is at the heart of the operational activity of the party. The secretary general’s office is surrounded by the offices of the senior party employees, advisors, organisers, administrators and communicators. It doesn’t [...]
Joseph Muscat is not a politician. He resigned from the premiership last January and even now he laments his broken heart. Now he’s quit parliament squandering half his terminal speech, shorter than most people’s weekly shopping list, to explain he doesn’t believe in pomp and circumstance. Which like much else he says is complete bull-shit. [...]
This blog has in the past featured some of the works by artist Joseph Farrugia whose dark, haunting drawings are explicit political statements allegorised in birds and monsters. They are stark projections of the horror we have experienced in this country in recent years. Or at least the horror we woke up to when Daphne [...]