The Executive Committee of the Nationalist Party meets tonight. It is being convened on the orders of the party’s leader Adrian Delia. He is convening a committee that has declared in a secret vote that it has no confidence in him. And yet he is charging ahead, putting on the agenda an item called “concrete [...]

The idea that the main witness for the prosecution is seriously wounded is disturbing enough. But it's impossible to shake off the worry about the police reaching the conclusion it did so quickly, that Melvyn Theuma harmed himself, and proceeded to ram that conclusion down everyone's throat before the man had even reached the hospital. [...]

NGO Repubblika this morning called to an end to the mafia's control of Malta. "It has been weeks since we have asked for the launch of a joint investigating team between Europol and Malta's police. The Maltese authorities have done nothing." Repubblika renewed their request "with renewed determination". The NGO called on the prime minister [...]

Tom Hagen: When a plot against the Emperor failed... the plotters were always given a chance... to let their families keep their fortunes. Right? Frank Pentangeli: Yeah, but only the rich guys, Tom. The little guys got knocked off and all their estates went to the Emperors. Unless they went home and killed themselves, then nothing happened. [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "We would call on our community not to look away with indifference at the failure of our parliament and the ineffective blubber that still calls itself the opposition within it. "We would call on our community not to assume that street protests will be enough to hold [...]

If the ethical guidelines for people in public life, particularly disgraced prime ministers, permit them to receive lavish gifts without having to declare who gave them the gift and for what purpose, then our ethical guidelines need re-writing. The Commissioner for Standards was unhappy with Joseph Muscat for arrogantly saying that it was ‘none of [...]

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The people that call themselves the Civil Society Network put up click-baiting polls on Facebook. These ‘surveys’ have no basis in science, are not informative in and of themselves, the results – such as they are – are rarely made known, and are only tangentially relevant to any argument the person or organisation posting it [...]

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The video of Brian Hansford advising Delia supporters on how to put pressure on PN MPs is, if nothing else, evidence of his pathological stupidity. The case that he’s a Labour Party tool with a platform on national TV to serve his party’s interests has long been made. Now we know that his eagerness to [...]

A strange thing happened in court yesterday. Lawyers for Yorgen Fenech said there had been a tape that Melvyn Theuma had recorded but was never heard in court. Yorgen Fenech’s defence team knew about it. The scene in court looked like nobody else did. As it turned out the tape wasn’t heard because the audio [...]

Manuel Delia · Playing Boċċa Andrew Borg Cardona needs no defending. More often than not I need him to defend me from touchy politicians who sue me for libel or lying politicians whom I sue myself. He does it for free. If he didn’t, I would have stopped doing this a long time ago. I’m [...]

The ‘foreign interference’ narrative will become a new front to portray activists and journalists as collaborators and traitors. I mentioned in an earlier post that after Simon Mercieca’s Mintoffian and Putinesque tirade about “foreign interference in civil society”, I got questions from l-orizzont about how I respond “to Simon Mercieca’s allegations”. Expect screaming headlines on [...]

Watch this clip of historian Simon Mercieca on national TV last Monday. The show was discussing Adrian Delia. Simon Mercieca, a big fan, was looking for reasons why Adrian Delia was not much loved. And he came up with this. Let’s leave aside the absurdity of the notion that anyone needed to pay money so [...]

For now, we sit around wondering at the psychopathic tendencies, the megalomaniac delusions, the obliviousness to reality and Ċensu l-Iswed. For now, Adrian Delia insisting he will fight on limbless is a strange spectacle of a man in denial. But there will be a time when we will wonder less at the man and more [...]

Adrian Delia’s senior consultant who was brought in by the ailing leader last year to advise him on reforms for the PN, has this morning called on the PN leader to resign. The call followed two votes in PN organs in quick succession that declared the party’s parliamentary group and governing committee have no confidence [...]

I asked former Chief Justice Vincent De Gaetano to comment on the President's decision yesterday to retain Adrian Delia as opposition leader. Here are his answers: Q. The constitutional text seems to require the president to remove a leader of opposition that is not supported by a majority of opposition MPs. And yet President George [...]