Eddy Privitera has got the same briefing note of Joe Brincat, and others in the Labour Party, that are spinning the ‘freedom of speech” argument to the point of absurdity. They don’t mind sounding absurd if they take down with them arguments they cannot defeat. In his letter to Times of Malta Eddy Privitera says [...]

I find Anġlu Farrugia’s motivation for blocking Karol Aquilina’s question in Parliament for Joseph Muscat to table the Egrant inquiry, exquisitely fascinating. You know, the man, strangely enough, maybe on to something. He says Karol Aquilina’s demand of Joseph Muscat regarding the Egrant inquiry is inadmissable “because the Prime Minister is not answerable to Parliament [...]

The Deputy President of the Italian lower house of Parliament, Maria Edera Spadoni from government coalition party Moviment Cinque Stelle, is hosting a meeting this Thursday dedicated to Daphne Caruana Galizia. The meeting will also pay tribute to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s career of fighting corruption. The meeting is titled “Investigative Journalism, a pillar of democracy: [...]

Press release by #Reżistenza: It is a basic principle universally acknowledged that States should promote the common good over the illegitimate interests of the few. A State which fails to do so loses its authority.  The sale by the Maltese Government of the land which, until a few months ago, was occupied by the Institute [...]

I will say what I think even if I’m the only one to say it. Let that piece of supreme self-assuredness hang there for a second and think about the implications. Daphne Caruana Galizia often had to think about being alone, though from what I know of her she did not doubt her own convictions. [...]

The Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ) is honouring Daphne Caruana Galizia and Slovakian Ján Kuciak posthumously with a “Golden Victoria 2018” for press freedom. The publishers said in a statement that the journalists' assassinations following their work clearly demonstrate the consequences of the rising global threats towards journalists even within the EU. However, the [...]

You might think conflicts of interest of people in office don’t concern you if they’re doing ‘a good job’. You might not care if Owen Bonnici is Justice Minister and personal attorney to a subject of a criminal inquiry. Here’s when it starts hitting you. If you live in Pembroke, or don’t and just care [...]

The initial shock when Peter Grech outed his minister, Owen Bonnici, as holding a private practice while still minister is now sinking in. The rule that prevents ministers from keeping up their professions is not to keep a lid on their income or to make sure they’re available if the prime minister needs to give [...]

Last night I caught two gov. workers red handed as they removed a photo of slain #Malta journalist #DaphneCaruanaGalizia and a small candle from the makeshift memorial opposite the courts in #Valletta. They also made sure to take my photo before rushing off in a gov. car Surreal pic.twitter.com/mwmx4bGRnt — Claire Caruana (@ClaireCaruana) October 1, [...]

From my article in today's The Sunday Times: Photo: amnat30/Shutterstock.com "Sicilian courts have spent the past 70 years beating against the rubber wall of denial that organised crime even exists. In that context, they see the media and politics’ collaboration with the Mafia’s efforts to suppress awareness of its existence as an extension [...]

Press release from #occupyjustice and manueldelia.com Bad governance effects us all. Corruption hurts us all. The allocation of valuable public land for an absurdly low price to the dB Group, the permit for them to erect a monstrous tower, the contempt shown to residents and protesters are a product of bad governance and corruption. People [...]

In a few days it will have been a year since Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed. Thirty Italian journalists have issued an appeal to colleagues in the profession to be in Malta on 16th October. The journalists insist on justice to be served on those who commissioned her assassination. The Italian journalists issued their appeal [...]

Chris Cardona says the salaries we pay his staffers are a secret we are not entitled to discover. He also told the regulator he will not be sharing with him this secret in order to assess, according to the law, whether we should know. Chris Cardona makes a mockery of freedom of information law. He [...]

In an open letter to Porter magazine’s winter issue, actress Meryl Streep defines “true bravery” when writing in defence of good journalism. “Bravery is terrifying and actual, bravado is a parade. We see enough examples of braggadocio and bravado strutting around on the public stage. True bravery is Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, blown up in [...]

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has made his first pronouncement. The fact that pronouncement happened to be about a lawyer and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is the outgoing President of the Chamber of Advocates is, in my view, entirely secondary. The Commissioner was speaking about a government Minister and a Member of Parliament. That [...]

They say laughter is the best medicine. But I'm not a doctor so I wouldn't know. But sarcasm, irony, wit, mockery, satire, parody and humour are legitimate forms of protest. We do not resort to it often enough because it feels awkward to laugh at times like these. Let's shake the awkwardness off. Steve Hili [...]

It was nice of Joseph Brincat to drop by in the constitutional case I filed against Owen Bonnici claiming his orders to censor the protest in front of the Law Courts was a breach of the rights to freedom of expression. You see Joseph Brincat is part of our history of human rights. He’s also [...]

Truth has become optional. It is extremely hard to justify the private jet debacle. Private jets carrying prime ministers -- Eddie Fenech Adami and Lawrence Gonzi -- have been the subject of super one scandals for generations. When a mid-level civil servant was flown on one to avoid cancelling her leave so a favourable vote [...]