Robert Abela thinks MPs should comply with their code of ethics and declare the gifts they get. He was giving Malta Today the quote as if they needed a reason to repeat the story on their sister newspaper Illum which on Sunday reported that Jason Azzopardi did not get a bill for using the gym [...]
Our prime minister has been unable to diversify his playbook. Like Joseph Muscat before him he does not defend the passport-selling scheme on its own merits, because except for the fact that it makes money, it has no merits. Making money, is hardly in and of itself a strong case. Robbing banks makes money too [...]
In the iron curtain hyperbole of Mintoff’s time, the space cleared in the 1960s just inside of Valletta’s landward gate, was named “Misraħ il-Ħelsien” or ‘Freedom Square’. That space, a grotty carpark just in the front hall of the town, was replaced with Renzo Piano’s parliament building. The architect said at the time that his [...]
Robert Abela got to know that Bernard Grech was going to be in Gozo last Thursday. He has spies everywhere. He was not to be outfoxed. He gathered his communications staff (about 81) and ordered them to prepare a public relations event for the same day. Telephones buzzed to all ministries to see if there [...]
Statement by #occupyjustice: One year ago, we all took to the streets in mass protests and forced Joseph Muscat, Konrad Mizzi, and Keith Schembri to resign. Since then we have witnessed the forced resignation of former Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar and the retirement of disgraced former Attorney General Peter Grech. And yet, one year on [...]
This aired yesterday on 103.
Edwin Vassallo has been in the PN for many years. He's never been more tolerant, more enlightened, more respectful of diversity and smarter than he is now. But he knew better than to be so loquacious. He knew he could not get away with expressing his antediluvian prejudices aloud. Then the PN went through a [...]
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.” - Kurt Vonnegut One of the buzzwords frequently used by Labour ministers, prime or otherwise, officials and trolls is ‘with hindsight.’ It’s the magical word that they think can absolve them of their blunders and make them as clean as [...]
Manuel Delia · What is Labour waiting for to repudiate its former leader? Around this time a year ago Joseph Muscat was asked point blank when he had last spoken to Yorgen Fenech. He rolled his eyes like a toddler looking for a lie in the back of his head. He asked what year it [...]
Manuel Delia · Second Prize, You're Fired Leviticus 5:17 warns you that it’s no excuse to say that you weren’t aware the Lord has proclaimed some action a sin. If you do it, you’ve sinned and must suffer the consequences. The succinct maxim is that ignorance of the law excuses no one. Okay, but that [...]
Malta is experiencing a dysfunctional representative democracy. It started, unintentionally, prior to 2013. A Partit Laburista in government has institutionalised this faltering political system during the last seven years. It was its clandestine roadmap to gain power, expediting more wealth to the wealthy elites irrespective of costs and illegalities and coercing citizens to the bondage [...]
The state continues to persecute the witnesses instead of the perpetrators. Jonathan Ferris and Maria Efimova were today charged with perjury for providing information to the Egrant inquiry that the magistrate at the time was unable to check out. I’m not going to make the case for their defence. We can hear that from their [...]
In spite of the mindless optimism of the government, we are nearing just the state of covid consequence that last March the government said it wanted to avoid. The mantra at the time was about managing the rate of contagion so that it is kept at levels that we can manage. “We” is neither you, [...]
In this article, I am presenting a financial analysis of Dizz Manufacturing Limited for the year ended 31 December 2019. The company was registered on 19 November 2013 and is part of the Dizz Group of Companies Limited. The audited financial statements were signed on 15 June 2020. The principal activity of the company is [...]
This morning Keith Schembri was arrested for the third time in less than a year. It is hard to remember now that a year ago today Keith Schembri was the most powerful man in the country. A year ago today the world collapsed around his ears. Please read again my post from the 11 November. [...]
As always, if you prefer to read the article instead of listening to the podcast, scroll down for the transcript. Manuel Delia · PODCAST: We've Had Our Fun With Jason's Pilgrimage Now let’s focus on what matters. Konrad Mizzi spent the night in jail last night because the police are not done asking him questions [...]
Would I rather not have to defend Jason Azzopardi about his trip to Tel Aviv in 2017? Yes. But mostly because it’s a waste of time. Those who condemned him for it will not care for reasons not to. The inconvenient thing about Jason Azzopardi as that he is both an MP and a lawyer [...]
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy While the whole world [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "The whole point of this is that it is true that every European member state has the power to decide who is to be the citizen of their country. But that does not mean they can ignore what the rest of the world understands at the conceptual [...]
This statement was issued by Repubblika earlier today. Repubblika is deeply concerned at the government’s management of the education sector during the covid pandemic. The greatest concern is that the government's failures are resulting in the provision of unequal quality of education to children which varies according to the category of school they attend - [...]