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LONG READ: His mission, now he chose to accept it

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2020-08-09T05:21:49+02:00Sun, 9th Aug '20, 05:21|

As potential candidates for the leadership of the PN made way for Bernard Grech, the party showed signs of life and of an ability to act like a political party rather than as an inanimate battle field. In the midst of all the devastation, there are some green shoots of hope. This does not come [...]

Cool Charmaine

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2020-08-06T08:11:34+02:00Thu, 6th Aug '20, 08:11|

I was struck by how Charmaine Gauci coolly distanced herself from Robert Abela’s line that the spread of Covid is “all under control”. She is clearly less capable of mindless denial than our prime minister is. Vincent Marmara, the brutally honest statistician that is more often than not the harbinger of horrible electoral results for [...]

GUEST VERSES (MT): Having a ball

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2020-08-06T07:31:19+02:00Thu, 6th Aug '20, 07:31|

Ftit tal-ġranet ilu f’tal-Moon Ball, l-okkażjoni, Miriam beżgħat sew, b’tal-virus ir-riperkussjoni. U kif daħlu 'l-Verdala, Kulħadd mlibbes gala, George weġibha “Jien, lejali lejn il-kostituzzjoni.”

GUEST POST: The handshake

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2020-08-05T11:11:22+02:00Wed, 5th Aug '20, 11:11|

Sent in by Spartacus: What you are looking at is a photo of two persons shaking hands. There is nothing so special about it. They are smiling and seem to be so content in each other’s company. This is what the picture imparts.  But for all those who are unfamiliar with these two persons, let [...]

From the frying pan

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2020-08-05T10:37:14+02:00Wed, 5th Aug '20, 10:37|

Adrian Delia issued a statement saying that all candidates for the leadership of the PN should submit themselves to a thorough due diligence process. Including himself. He seems to have been reacting to an appeal made to the party – quite likely also initiated by him – for the requirement to have him go through [...]

Unwritten history

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2020-08-05T09:54:10+02:00Wed, 5th Aug '20, 09:54|

Pieter Omtzigt today reacted to Edward Zammit Lewis’ triumphalism on the “historic” constitutional amendments adopted 10 days ago by Parliament. Writing in Times of Malta he observed that “it seems that most MPs had not even seen the final texts when they were told to vote for them. This is not how things are done [...]

Dessun Norma

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2020-08-04T15:48:40+02:00Tue, 4th Aug '20, 15:38|

After Reno Bugeja’s retirement from heading TVM’s news department, the Labour government has wheeled out Norma Saliba whose previous job was spokesperson for President George Vella. Her LinkedIn profile still says she works at the president’s. I’m going to assume that that is just inaccurate reporting rather than she’s holding on to both jobs at [...]

The photo proves it

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2020-08-03T09:46:16+02:00Mon, 3rd Aug '20, 09:46|

Jason Azzopardi was wondering why he was being taunted by the likes of Simon Mercieca with a tu quoque about his supposed relations with Yorgen Fenech. He didn’t know the guy. Never met him. And has been busy these past three years risking life and limb to get him to serve the longest prison term [...]

The only field that matters

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2020-08-03T08:25:49+02:00Mon, 3rd Aug '20, 08:25|

There are no certain outcomes in elections. Adrian Delia lost the confidence of the majority of his parliamentary group, of the executive committee of his party and, after Saturday’s ballot on whether to call a fresh election for his post, a majority of the party’s general council, its highest organ. But in all three bodies [...]

THE SUNDAY TIMES: Sausages and laws

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2020-08-02T08:34:01+02:00Sun, 2nd Aug '20, 08:34|

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Our democracy is failing because our political parties are unregulated, their internal elections are outside the scrutiny of the state and open to corrupt practices, they hog free speech by employing journalists and pollute the media landscape, they are funded from backhanders on the back of public [...]

The ultimate gaslighting

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2020-08-01T09:26:49+02:00Sat, 1st Aug '20, 09:26|

Adrian Delia’s first marriage is far from the first or the last to breakdown. And if work had something to do with it, it won’t be the first or the last either. But for him to take the floor yesterday at the PN’s general council and try to guilt councillors into thinking his marriage broke [...]

PODCAST: Jackboots

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2020-08-05T11:02:17+02:00Fri, 31st Jul '20, 18:54|

Manuel Delia · Jackboots The Nationalist Party is free to make its own choices of course. If the decision this weekend is to keep Adrian Delia on the path of confirmation, then that is its business. There’s a lot of the last-minute desperate campaigning going around reminding PN councillors why they should not give party [...]

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