… is one Saviour Balzan does not have. He’s also missing the gifts of grace, self-awareness, compassion, competence and consistency. Come to think of it,the man is quite altogether lacking. He expresses shock that “right-leaning press and bloggers” should be, but aren’t, bashing Times of Malta right now, and contrasts this with what would have [...]

We are witnessing a battle for the direction of the Labour Party. We are witnessing a battle for the resources of the State. We are experiencing a battle for the soul of our country. No one in the Labour Party doubts that between 2008 and 2013 the entire infrastructure of their movement was turned into [...]

This was a notification on my LinkedIn account today. Looking for my life history Christian Cardona?

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This comment was sent by Edward Mallia under this morning's post about Matthew Pace, remanded in casted at Kordin prison and erstwhile board member at the Planning Authority. On your comment about the Matthew Pace: "He was forced to resign from the Planning Authority when his ITS tower imbroglio was discovered when he worked to [...]

Probably, if you’re reading this, you never really doubted it. Probably, if you’re reading this, like me you felt pangs of guilt on 16 October 2017 when you thought that if you had done more to say that you thought Daphne was right her powerful voice would have reached further. I do not suggest you [...]

The importance of a national debate on what has been and is happening in Malta is imperative. I have no sympathy with the difficulty Robert Abela must have with coming out with a line that doesn’t harm his political party. If he praises institutions and himself for letting them work, he legitimises their action, effectively [...]

When then Magistrate Aaron Bugeja wrapped up the Egrant inquiry he went beyond his call of duty. The exercise of collecting evidence was meticulous, laborious and expensive. Aaron Bugeja was definitely within his rights to conclude that he found insufficient evidence to let him confirm with any confidence that the claim that Egrant belonged to [...]

Rightly, there was a lot of talk yesterday about Simon Busuttil being proved right. Of course, he was. I’m rather bothered right now about the people proven wrong. I’m thinking right now of Giovanni Grixti. The Criminal Court judge blocked another inquiry that Simon Busuttil requested and Magistrate Ian Farrugia accepted should be launched saying [...]

‘Business-friendly’ as Joseph Muscat meant it is ultimately a business-unfriendly form of government. As he flirted with private interests at those lunches before 2013 that Sandro Chetcuti and others organised for him, Joseph Muscat promised business leaders he would run his government as some sort of clearing house for them. This sounded appealing. Certainly, more [...]

An element of Keith Schembri’s spin on what’s happening to him is that the charges he faced yesterday are unrelated to his position in government. TVM newspaper commenters, including Michael Falzon the former PN minister who stashed his ill-gotten gains in Switzerland and was pardoned for it by Joseph Muscat, took up that spin this [...]

Picture: Malta Today Keith Schembri won’t take this lying down. He’s going to fight, and he’s going to blame everyone but himself, and he’s going to play the martyr, and he’s going to give us a lot of that macho working class hero crap, and he will give no quarter to the idea [...]

It is remarkable that Adrian Delia tried to take credit for yesterday’s outcome. Let’s just measure the opportunity cost, right? It’s a big if to wonder what things might be if Simon Busuttil did not resign the leadership in 2017 so let’s not even speculate that far. But we can, in our controlled intellectual experiment, [...]

I’m not quite sure what the financial services regulator is waiting for to strike off Zenith, Matthew Pace’s rebranded financial services firm that helped Keith Schembri hide his money. They provided services for grandees like Robert Musumeci and Deo Scerri too but Matthew Pace slept hard last night because of Keith Schembri’s business. Someone at [...]

The prison director had explained to me how induction into prison works under covid conditions. New prisoners are immediately set up in Division 6, a corner of prison so mediaeval that the Committee to Prevent Torture argues it should be shut down altogether. The miserable area is kept in business as a deterrent like the [...]

Think back to October 2018. Parliament. Chris Cardona is sweating. He’s just been caught in a lie. He had told the police and everyone else who cared to listen that France 2’s April 2018 report that he had met one of the Degiorgios before their arrest was false. He didn’t know the Degiorgios. But La [...]

People saw Karl Cini weeping in court today when he realised he's going to be sleeping, if at all, within fart-smelling distance of Yorgen Fenech. It's funny that he seems to be the only one not to have seen this coming. Tomorrow ask to speak to the police and tell them all you know. It's [...]

Look at this. Some politicians are trying to understand the direction in which the crowd is running so they can chase it, stand before it and lead it. I called out Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando later for realising only today that Keith Schembri was up to no good. He had the benefit of Daphne Caruana Galizia's [...]

Perhaps in response to Chris Cardona's creativity, here's another imaginary street name. After all the Kink Joseph the Great ran the government that's in the dock today.