The winning entry to the Kanzunetta Indipendenza festival.

There's the Great Siege Memorial this morning after the great national heroes of the Cleansing Department in the dead of night heroically won the struggle against the persistent stains of flower petals and faint flickering candles. The Memorial is now nicely and neatly boarded up with a pretty wrap around. No works in progress in [...]

Owen Bonnici’s intellectual faculties have never moved the earth. In Maltese we have a very specific word for the shallow well-meaning: baħbuħ. His party militants have thrown him on the frontline of a battle he has nothing to do with. And his party bosses have shot him in midair as an alternative target in place [...]

Eddy Privitera paid a brief visit to this blog. He fired empty taunts and was sent packing. He thought his plan worked and went to Times of Malta with a letter saying that I’m like Daphne Caruana Galizia who had also banned him from her blog. I should not need to explain that banning a [...]

When a heckler comes screaming in your face, as one did to mine today, saying you should be ashamed of yourself for protesting, it is easy to be disheartened. The sight of a woman 'exercising her right' of vandalising the protest site wades deep into your deepest roots of doubt. But remember we're not alone. [...]

This document which you see before you certifies by the hand of a police officer that the government, using its employees, ripped away a protest banner bearing an image of the flag of Malta, an image of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the word ‘Ġustizzja’ written in bold type. They also dragged away flowers [...]

The protest site in Great Siege Square has been wiped out again in the dead of night. We weren’t sleeping there to guard it because we have children and homes and jobs to go back to. Joseph Muscat also had a home to go back to so he had government employees strike down the flag [...]

This was published by Roberto Saviano on his Facebook page earlier today.

Damage to poppy wreaths at Narrow Water in County Down is being treated as a hate crime by Northern Ireland police. Eighteen soldiers were killed in two IRA bomb attacks at the site near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in August 1979. BBC reported that the damage happened on Saturday afternoon and the wreaths have since been [...]

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Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters. Published in The Daily Beast From an article by Barbie Latza Nadeau: “My mother would have been able to find the mastermind,” Galizia’s son Matthew told The Daily Beast. “Anyone familiar with her work and her last few years alive knows where to start to find the ones who [...]

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My speech at yesterday's vigil. https://youtu.be/Jyp-d_elZ2E The photo accompanying this piece is by Darrin Zammit Lupi for Reuters.

Guest post by Pat Azzopardi Preziosi People hold up photos of assassinated anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and torches on mobile phones during a vigil to mark eleven months since her murder in a car bomb, in Valletta, Malta September 16, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi At 2:35 pm, exactly 11 months ago today, [...]

The government needed a pretext to push activists and protesters away from the Great Siege Memorial. They waited for the 8th September when no one would have made a fuss if they spruced up the place to have the Victory Day bacchanal and then said this is it. Because they did not want to work [...]

Adrian Delia stayed up late last night penning verses. Here's the little ditty.

This morning, government employees wrapped the hoarding around the Great Siege memorial but they only covered the three unused sides facing the back and side of the memorial. The front facing the law courts has been left untouched sporting the protest banner demanding justice. The Maltese flag, the image of Daphne Caruana Galizia and messages [...]