I’ve been speaking to people who work in advertising to try to understand the imbalance of marketing resources and capability between the two organisations we still describe “as the two main parties”. A “two-party system” implies some sort of balance and equality of arms, a neck and neck struggle where the sides take turns winning [...]

While the Labour Party and its candidates break the rules and flood your online space with their advertising (see this earlier article on why that’s a bad thing), Google cashes the money. They’re not going to put a stop to this unless enough people ask them. Here’s how you can do your bit. When you [...]

Every time you go to YouTube, every website that takes Google Ads, all over Facebook, mostly wherever you are online, you are repeatedly assaulted by Labour Party adverts. There are a few PN adverts on top of that. When the campaign started, we could have said that was overkill. We could think they might haveunderestimated [...]

Watch this point of view film shot by Newsbook’s Monique Agius chasing the prime minister to ask him to react to the near unanimous vote in the European Parliament calling for the abolishing of Malta’s passport sales scheme. His 4 Labour MEPs were the only Socialists to vote against the motion. At any time of [...]

Members of the Ukrainian community living in Malta have told this website they have received warnings from Maltese government officials to stay away from protests for peace called by NGO Repubblika. Community leaders have received warnings that should they be seen at protests called by Repubblika outside the Russian Embassy in Kappara, or elsewhere, they [...]

I had an uncredited cameo appearance at yesterday leaders’ debate at university. It wasn’t so much an appearance as it was a mention. The moderator, Yasmine Ellul (the star turn of the event) asked the leaders about the implementation of the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry recommendations. In that context Bernard Grech referred to the now [...]

Photo: Lovin Malta There were various opinions about who might have done better in yesterday’s leaders’ debate at university. But there’s no controversy over who did worst. Most of the audience was often on its feet, arms raised, shouting Viva l-Lejber like the audience of the daily newsreels in 1984. At the sight [...]

Times of Malta carries three headlines today on its court news page. “Man charged with sexually molesting estranged wife.” “Husband accused of arson attack on van of his ex’s lover.” “Had sex with a minor girl and filmed it.” Yesterday there was another report. “Rapist gets nine years in jail for ‘cowardly, inhuman’ act in [...]

There was a bit of a happy ending when a Labour Party supporter posted on his Facebook post a photo with Times of Malta’s Mark Laurence Zammit to whom he had apologised after treating him aggressively on the side-lines of a Labour Party campaign event. At Labour’s event, when the guy saw Mark Laurence Zammit [...]

There’s something disturbingly dystopian about this image. As part of his election campaign, Labour candidate Ray Abela, handed out VR headsets to schoolchildren. Here he is posing in a campaign photo with a row of young pupils wearing his branded headsets. In between the covering of their eyes, and the masks down to beneath their [...]

The piece is written by the same author of this other Guest Post that looked at Labour’s chase for the hunters’ vote. This post looks at what the other side is doing. The Nationalist Party never had the hunters’ vote. Most hunters always voted Labour. So, in a way it is a bit of a [...]

Sent in by someone known to me. What people suspect all along, is usually true. Il-qasba ma ċċaqċaqx għalxejn, as we say. Many have long suspected that the most useless Environment Minister Malta ever had, was on the side of hunters. We know it officially now as he has been endorsed by none other than [...]

An appeals court told Arnold Cassola today he has every right to argue in front of a lower court why the new rules ensuring women are better represented in Parliament are against the Constitution. This needs some background because the last thing Arnold Cassola is arguing is that there shouldn’t be more women in Parliament. [...]

Do please read Times of Malta's leader today following up an a Labour Party campaign billboard that featured me who am a candidate, an official, a campaigner, or a propagandist for none of the political parties contesting the coming general election. The editorial says: "PEN Malta said it all when, reacting to the decision to [...]

In June of last year Repubblika published a document calling for the enforcement of our laws to prevent corruption in general elections. Repubblika also proposed improvements to the law since parts of it were last revised before Mussolini declared war on Britain and France. Of course, our call for stricter laws was ignored by the [...]

The thing about Konrad Mizzi finding God, presumably hiding from him inside some Dubai bank account owned by a Panama company held by a New Zealand trust, is that it doesn't matter. May he, if it pleases him, render unto God the things that are God's. In the meantime Caesar is waiting for [...]

After days of dodging reporters, the prime minister took the time to answer reporter’s questions today. I was about to say that was a good thing. But that’s what prime ministers should be doing, especially in an election campaign they are contesting. So, saying he did a good thing to answer journalist’s questions is like [...]

I was caught out of step with the free speech community in the last few days. I thought banning Russia Today from Western screens was frankly a good idea. They are spreading lies masked as news and people who prefer the lies resort to what RT reports as evidence of what they imagine. That's just [...]

The government quoted the FATF saying the following: “At its February 2022 Plenary, the FATF made the initial determination that Malta has substantially completed its action plan and warrants an on-site visit.” As quotes go it felt short, so I looked up the FATF’s progress report on Malta. This is the text in full: In [...]

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