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Look at this headline and unwind the logical knot in what Robert Abela is saying. He was fielding questions from the press challenging Labour’s self-proclaimed newfound love for Malta’s environment and their vocation to protect it. He can’t ask anyone to ignore the greedy over-development that has taken over both islands over the past 10 [...]

Robert Abela spent days mocking the PN for missing the qualifier “not” in one of its electoral manifesto proposals. The PN were referring to one of the droves of subsidies they were promising to keep, and they said they ‘would remove’ them when they meant to say they ‘would not remove’ them. I’m simplifying but [...]

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‘If you were to be re-elected, would you increase the budget for the military?’ That’s a hypothetical question. The question is premised on the materialisation of a circumstance that has not yet happened and that may not happen. So, if Robert Abela wanted to refuse to answer hypothetical questions he could, in theory, refuse to [...]

Robert Abela was asked to comment on the bonus paid out to Rosianne Cutajar after he fired her for hiding a €9,000 cash gift from Yorgen Fenech before speaking on his behalf at the Council of Europe and in Malta’s Parliament. Apart from dodging tax on an undeclared brokerage fee. Robert Abela said today he [...]

Russia has quit the Council of Europe. Against the background of the invasion of Ukraine this might feel like a formalistic diplomatic escalation. It is more than that. The move has deep symbolic significance and none of it is good. Add to that the fact that in addition to abandoning the Council of Europe, Russia [...]

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A staged interview asked Rosianne Cutajar what she thought her worst defect was.   Here’s a list of things she didn’t mention. Shagging a business tycoon and accepting his gifts even though damning evidence emerged that he bribed politicians to get public contracts. Collecting a hefty commission from a property sale (involving the [...]

Malta Today’s James Debono yesterday published an analysis of the planning permit of the Żejtun country villa Robert Abela owns outside the development zone. And yet the front pages of today’s newspapers and websites are about Bernard Grech explaining why he had details about his villa in a Mosta residential street sanctioned by the PA. [...]

By the time the apparatchiks at the Labour Party had reached number 964 in their record-breaking list of electoral promises, they must have felt the target of 1,000 was unreachable. You know the phrase they threw everything but the kitchen sink? Perhaps they held back on the sink, but you'll be comforted to know they [...]

Sent in by someone I know. The subject matter will suggest that from my point of view publishing this piece is self-serving. However that alone is not enough reason not to carry the piece. So please take into account the fact that I was prominent in the pre-2013 transport reform being defended by the writer [...]

The Shift News reports that on the eve of a fund raiser in Gozo Robert Abela met Gozitan construction contractors in an event hosted by Joseph Portelli. The next day's telethon, quite obviously a front to launder the cash given illegally by the contractors to the prime minister, claimed receiving over €1,000,000. Days later Joseph [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "It will be an imperative duty of this community to make sure the poor, the homeless, the people sleeping in cars and toilet-less garages, the migrants still finding their feet are sheltered from this eminently foreseeable shockwave ahead. They are a nudge away from homelessness and malnourishment [...]

  Good people’s capacity to seek the good in bad people is infinite. Commenters overflowing with empathy were trying to excuse Joe Debono Grech’s utterances at a Labour Party campaign event. He’s senile. He was joking. He didn’t think it through. He wasn’t speaking for the party. Joe Debono Grech is not some [...]

Will you please stop using children as props for your electioneering. Sometimes it's even more obvious they don't like it. Why do we think they have the right to force them into adult rituals that are of no benefit or interest to them?