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GUESTPOST: Labourspeak

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2021-10-23T09:41:38+02:00Sat, 23rd Oct '21, 09:41|

Sent in by someone known to me. Following the recent outcry on the inappropriate use of the word ‘riċerka’ by a Labour politician, a journalist has managed to obtain a copy of a secret document that is kept hidden at the Labour HQ.  Titled ‘Labourspeak – the language of a modern day society’, it gives [...]

Renounced legacy

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2021-10-22T10:17:22+02:00Fri, 22nd Oct '21, 10:17|

There was something chilling about how Ian Borg put it when he argued for the need of a metro: ‘If we do nothing our children will curse us’. I don’t think I can ever remember using a quote from Ian Borg as something I felt any sympathy for. Take it out of the specific context [...]

Real world trolls

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2021-10-21T10:38:59+02:00Thu, 21st Oct '21, 10:10|

Our governors do not merely delight in the assurance that their grip on power is being extended for another 5-year term. They somehow feel the need to troll their opponents, a real-word reflection of the “erbgħin elf” followed by a row of lemons that their minions post on Facebook as an irrelevant close to every [...]

Disconnection

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2021-10-20T08:12:34+02:00Wed, 20th Oct '21, 08:12|

The headline Times of Malta takes from Robert Abela’s speech of yesterday is a less ironic version of what I wrote when I strung together the themes of the budget and the opposition’s reaction to it. L-aqwa żmien – the best of times – were just a prelude. The good stuff is still ahead. Robert [...]

Konrad’s illusion of free will

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2021-10-20T07:27:40+02:00Wed, 20th Oct '21, 07:27|

After twice skipping invitations to the public accounts committee to answer questions about energy contracts he negotiated, concluded, and signed, Konrad Mizzi yesterday said he would accept the third invitation. The reason he gave for this conversion is that he did not want to let the nationalists – bastards – “distract” people from Robert Abela’s [...]

George’s privacy

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2021-10-19T15:07:28+02:00Tue, 19th Oct '21, 15:07|

Of the dozens of time-wasting shots in the dark human rights cases brought by the men charged with killing Daphne Caruana Galizia, one paid off today. George Degiorgio stands accused of being one of Daphne’s killers. He denies any wrongdoing. The prosecution’s case says that he was the man who sailed his brother’s boat outside [...]

Better than the best of times

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2021-10-19T09:50:10+02:00Tue, 19th Oct '21, 09:50|

A general election is near, whether it is formally announced in the coming hours or not. First of all, it’s time. 6 months short of the 5 year deadline is too late to call whatever happens now an “early” election. Secondly, the government party has been campaigning with the same frenzied appetite they displayed in [...]

Some things you should know

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2021-10-18T10:27:30+02:00Mon, 18th Oct '21, 10:27|

I’ve learned a few things over the last several days that perhaps I should have known. But I didn’t, so there’s a fair chance you don’t as well. Do not trust your eyes when your phone tells you so and so from your address book is calling you. It is perfectly possible for someone to [...]

Peace in our time

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2021-10-18T09:00:36+02:00Mon, 18th Oct '21, 09:00|

Does it make a difference that we find out that when Adrian Delia as Leader of Opposition ignored the fact Yorgen Fenech owned 17 Black (when the big news was that Yorgen Fenech owned 17 Black) Yorgen Fenech thanked him  for his spot of blindness? Not really. It doesn’t make it any better that Yorgen [...]

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