In what universe is this acceptable? Does this sort of thing really help people choose who to vote for? In a way the candidate intends, I mean. With all that's wrong with Edward Scicluna -- and plenty is -- does this make anyone feel they can't wait for Kristy Debono to become Finance Minister?
What Jason Azzopardi revealed in Parliament last night is a new level of nightmare. And yet, when our eyes flicker open in the cold light of day, we’ll brush off this experience and wash away the unease we feel about what has just happened. Every week a new low is reached for civil rights in [...]
Note that time has changed to 18:30. Join us Saturday in front of the Law Courts in Valletta to mark 17 months since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Someone has to stick around to remind this country it is living a lie and someone was killed for trying to change that. The vigil is [...]
Someone yesterday wrote I was boring because I pointed out the imbecility of a tweet by the Leader of the Opposition that said his fight in court was aimed at “restoring the imbalance of power”. I may be going out on a limb here but I don’t think Adrian Delia was rethinking Thucydides when he [...]
Posted on Facebook by Lizzie Eldridge earlier today.
It’s not beneath the dignity of this website to provide a little free advertising as long as it amounts to public service of course. Marlene Mizzi is looking to rent out her Brussels apartment now her time as MEP is drawing to a close. She gave first dibs to other incumbent MEPs presumably in case [...]
Adrian Delia tweeted this morning after going to court. He went to fight one of his Monday morning battles because, he says, "we must restore the imbalance of power". What's wrong with the imbalance we have now? You have one job.
Please do read The Sunday Times's editorial of today about the secrecy with which Constitutional reforms are being debated behind closed doors by a committee made of representatives of the PN and the PL. The heading says it all. The Editor is rightly concerned that so far, apart from political parties, only Repubblika has shown [...]
He’s gone full circle now. He started out by arguing the PN was obsessive about corruption because Daphne Caruana Galizia had taken possession of the party. Under her spell and the feeble leadership of Simon Busuttil, the PN had lost touch with ‘the bread and butter issues’. The party had become too negative. It had [...]
So Joseph Muscat wants us to believe he has grown tired of politicians who want to stick to their seats. He’s suggested a use by date for Parliamentarians: out after 20 years. And if an MP makes it to Prime Minister they need to be knocked out within 10. As always with Joseph Muscat it [...]
Watch this Times of Malta video of their reporter Ivan Camilleri reminding Joseph Muscat why our Prime Minister avoids the press like the plague. Because at least some journalists are not numbed and desensitised by the perpetual state of heightened dismay we have all been under for over five years now. In October 2017 the [...]
The Court of Appeal has quashed two decisions by a lower court that had found Caroline Muscat liable to pay damages of €10,000 for a series of articles she wrote when she was working at Times of Malta on Patrick Dalli, husband of Minister Helena Dalli. The stories were published in 2014 and reported on [...]
This is a video statement released today by Repubblika after representatives of the organisation filed a court application today demanding an inquiry into Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri, those who bribed them and those who helped them getting bribed. The statement is in Maltese. Scroll down for an English translation and for a copy of [...]
On its Women's Day statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Press Emblem Campaign has expressed "regret that more than 16 months after the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta in October 2017, the Maltese authorities have not yet accepted a public inquiry". The PEC urged the Maltese authorities "to find the [...]
Your sense of judgement, which continues to chain you to a ground where very few remain, would tell you this is a spoof by someone a tad too keen like those guys who tattoo a cartoon stickman to their shoulderblade and label it Joseph Muscat. But then you remember that a concert of Joseph Muscat's favourite [...]
There probably isn’t a more callously myopic and less reassuring response than “look at the big picture”. But that’s what Minister Michael Falzon wants us to do while we register the fact that more people are living in deprivation now than last year. He was speaking to Times of Malta commenting in their print report [...]
The following is a statement issued today by Repubblika: Hours before the nomination of George Vella as President of Malta, we heard that his predecessor, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, suspended the series of meetings she had been chairing of a committee made up of representatives nominated by Joseph Muscat and Adrian Delia to drive changes [...]
News media from around the world reported with dismay, right up to this week, the government's evil campaign of daily removal of flowers, candles and protest messages left at the Great Siege memorial opposite the law courts. Not to be outdone, the world-respected, brave, intrepid, truth-seeking, fair-minded journalists at Super One are also covering this [...]
Ali Sadr Hasheminejad instructed staff to make sure his Iranian nationality and any other links to Iran were carefully concealed as he was setting up Pilatus Bank in Malta. This emerges from emails sent by Ali Sadr from his personal Gmail account that United States investigators recovered as part of their investigations in their case [...]
I was reminded recently of a phrase Simon Busuttil had used once — ‘Labour-proof’ — that Labour had taken out of context and ran with as some form of sectarian divisive dogma. Of course, the intention of that phrase was to commit to what many now so often complain about when they refuse to attribute [...]