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I don’t suppose Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg will consider resigning now. Last year, Vince Muscat il-Koħħu admitted killing Daphne Caruana Galizia. The Attorney General agreed with Vince Muscat to ask for a reduced sentence for murder (15 years instead of life) in exchange for evidence against his accomplices. His evidence strengthened the state’s case against [...]

The court dismissed a lawsuit brought against me by Yorgen Fenech, the man accused of complicity in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, finding he had no grounds to complain that I rejected his request to publish a letter he sent me claiming it was his right to reply to an article I had published [...]

However important you think you are, and however important you think your work is, however much in a hurry you may be, and however much you are willing to rationalise your actions in your own mind, leaving your bloody car on a parking space reserved for people with mobility problems must be, to my mind, [...]

The following are the concluding sentences from a post on the US website on international affairs, the International Policy Digest: The tumour of corruption in Malta has grown too large for the government to perform self-surgery particularly as the ruling elite have had a major hand in the descent into sleaze. As foreign owned businesses [...]

We only see what we’re allowed to see. We can only try to figure out what happens in the background, behind closed doors. I’m going to give you 6 things you’ve seen the front of these last few days and ask you what lingers in the vast blackness behind them. Consider the Steward's decision to [...]

Watch this video which summarises the report of Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatović after her October 2021 visit to Malta. Commissioner for Human Rights's Report on Malta 2022 from Council of Europe OP Services on Vimeo. The full report is linked here: CommDH(2022)1_ Report on the visit to Malta_EN

The prime minister announced that the government will be taking back the Żonqor area and the Senglea open space that had been allocated to the phantom so-called American University of Malta. He announced it the way he meant it to sound, like a gift by the government to its core constituency, entitling him to their [...]

Jacob Borg striding inches behind politicians rushing towards the safety of that fortress we still call the Auberge de Castille, one hand in his pocket like a rebel without a cause, the other holding up a microphone, is fast becoming a sub-genre of contemporary, low-budget, Maltese cinema. His latest guest star, Robert Abela, must surely [...]

Although that is what they want you think. Switching a rotten prime minister with another rotten prime minister is neither progress in and of itself nor is it an opening to secure fairness, truth, and justice. If we stop now, they win. They’ve used all their resources for four and half years in the hope [...]

Newsbook reported yesterday that the General Workers’ Union has suspended the editor of its newspapers l-orizzont and it-Torċa apparently because of some disagreement over pieces critical of the Labour Party. Details are still coming out and the editor himself, Victor Vella, hasn’t said anything yet but a closer look at what happened paints a very [...]

About 15 months ago I wondered aloud how Robert Abela came to be so wealthy. We’re starting to get answers. Here’s what The Sunday Times’s story of this morning means. At least in one case that we know of so far, Robert Abela billed a client for legal services in a creative manner. When you [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Forty thousand’ they say, warning their opponents that, once the result of the next election is known, they’ll have no choice but to shut up, perhaps leave the country. They don’t necessarily address that to the opposition in the wider sense as much as to Times of [...]

Desmond Zammit Marmara, it is the fate of democrats like you and me to learn to live with the fact that we have resigned our fate to the determination of, as you call them, “brainless idiots”. I will also use your words to describe those of us who are not brainless idiots: “intellectuals”. You insist [...]

Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, yesterday included in her whirlwind program a visit to the site where what was left of Daphne Caruana Galizia was recovered after her death in October 2017. Roberta Metsola followed her predecessors and colleagues at the highest levels of European institutions. The visit should be as uncontroversial as [...]

Parliament is debating a new law that will criminalise cyberstalking and cyberbullying. Anyone convicted of these new crimes is looking at a maximum of 5 years in prison. Cyberstalking happens when someone attempts to cause harm to someone else by contacting them over some device, or causes their computer or device to do something, or [...]

In the first part of this article, I argued that rather than bringing to a head the important issues facing our country, the proximity of the general election is slowing down progress, deflating interest, and generally chilling the passions they have, in the past, inflamed. Here are 6 examples of what I mean by important [...]