Reuters’ Darrin Zammit Lupi is out at sea on the Alan Kurdi. He tweeted yesterday that Malta’s armed forces are only evacuating passengers from the rescue boat if they become suicidal. Three more minors, all suicidal, were evacuated by AFM from the #AlanKurdi in the early hours of this morning. According to #Seaeye doctor, the [...]
Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad, owner of the defunct Maltese bank Pilatus, charged with money laundering and violating US sanctions, wants to be allowed out on the street in the evenings and his GPS anklet removed. Ali Sadr has asked a US court to let him stay out of his house till midnight while he awaits [...]
That was quite a cringe-fest on the Sunday Circle yesterday. It’s the magazine that came out with The Sunday Times and that showed 5 pictures of Ian Castaldi Paris beaming like he’s just lost his virginity. Five times. Ostensibly this cover story of the Sunday Circle is an interview with “the man behind the professional”. [...]
(Father) David Muscat is becoming the lead spokesman of Malta’s neo-Nazi party, the Imperium Europa. For the 8th September holiday, he led a delegation of the party founded by Norman Lowell at the Great Siege Memorial and “addressed” his audience, such as it was, wearing his off-duty priestly Sunday best and folding a rosary in [...]
As it turns out the PN had more planned for yesterday than just a conference to discuss the Sette Giugno riots to try to deflect attention from the protest that Moviment Graffitti led. Adrian Delia and the handful of students that will be taking over the MŻPN, replacing an older guard that was unwilling to [...]
Reports that Helena Dalli is lined up to be Europe’s commissioner for justice are a black joke, to borrow a phrase. You could take it for granted that Joseph Muscat would nominate an ally to the commission. As he prepares for his exit from Castille, he needs as many friends in high places as could [...]
Where would you rather have been? One of these events attracted 23 people to think about a protest march in Valletta a century ago. The other wanted people to think about what will happen a hundred years from now.
... but you would expect, under normal circumstances, for the opposition party to be pleased that civil society is up in arms and protesting government decisions. The PN does not need to be in the crowd to benefit from popular disaffection with government. You would expect them to want anyone who is not at the [...]
People are gathering in Republic Street outside the Law Courts for the demonstration called by Moviment Graffiti and backed by around 60 organisations this morning. The Great Siege Memorial has been graced by wreaths laid by state officials as part of the Jum il-Vitorja celebrations. Some people participating in today's march that they could add [...]
Many people will be in Valletta tomorrow. A number of factors come together for that to happen. Firstly, of course, the people who will show up are genuinely angry and worried and wish to express their frustration. They want to stop the sack of Malta, it’s uglification, the encroachment on space, the increase in noise, [...]
"The fight against corruption and the decimation of the rule of law must continue.” -- Daphne Caruana Galizia (2017) A vigil calling for truth and justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia is being held on 16 September at the Great Siege Square in Valletta at 7.30pm. Please join us.
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "There is a pattern here of running down the clock on manifestly transparent breaches of legal principles, buying time and postponing the inevitable. "The government does this because we have grown to accept anything that is thrown at us, however outrageous. We know we’re frogs in a [...]
The Criminal Court, after no less than four weeks, is still to decide on the appeal filed by Ministers Konrad Mizzi, Chris Cardona and Edward Scicluna from the decree by the Duty Magistrate on Repubblika’s request for a Magisterial Inquiry on the hospitals privatisation. The law expects such decisions to be decided “with urgency”. To [...]
Whatever ‘reach out’ or ‘healing’ the PN leadership intended to start the night Adrian Delia was confirmed by the General Council as party leader does not appear to have started working. There is no significant change in the leadership’s attitude. There does not seem to be any new industrious energy coming down from the top. [...]
Are you offended by this? Or this? Or this? Then listen very carefully. I shall say this only once: you’re probably a Nazi and should fuck right off. Or else you work for it-Torċa. Or you are a Nazi who works for it-Torċa and should fuck right off in any case. The mock shock scandal [...]
I was sued once for calling someone else a hypocrite. Justin Schembri can’t possibly sue me for calling him a racist since I did so at his own explicit invitation. Let’s see what he says to being branded a hypocrite, which he is. Justin Schembri spoke on behalf of the PN as “PN Education Spokesperson” [...]
Sent in by David Thake under the earlier post on Justin Schembri's eulogy of Matteo Salvini: This bag of rubbish is a reflection of what the PN has become. A bunch of amateurs who think politics is a limbo dance beneath principles, diving below the acceptable without falling. I remember when I was sitting waiting [...]
Emmanuel Galea finished his Times of Malta article today about the PN’s decision to scale down its yearly Indipendenza festivities with the words in this post’s headline. For him, a former long-time activist of the PN, the relocation to Pieta’ is not merely a cost-cutting exercise. Rather it is a result of the fact that [...]
