“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.” - Isabel Allende Every time Labour is in government there is a common peculiarity. Malta becomes an island of impunity: individuals and or groups of individuals become untouchable, whatever their criminal or corrupt actions are. In the [...]

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Anġlu Farrugia, that congenital idiot who used to be worth less than his moustache until even that walked away from him, came up with the most self-defeating explanation for refusing to name a room in the parliament building after Daphne Caruana Galizia, since he told his mother he shat in the soup bowl because he [...]

It would have been helpful if Robert Abela gained some experience running an organisation, any, before he took on his first government job ever, as prime minister and Labour Party leader. His handling of Chris Cardona is pathetic. If Robert Abela had spent some years as president of the village stamp collecting guild, or the [...]

Call me a pedant but I think this is relevant. Here's a question and answer from Ivan Martin's interview with Lawrence Cutajar: You are the commissioner under whose watch a journalist was assassinated. As the head of the police, you have a responsibility to ensure public safety. This assassination was one of the greatest disappointments [...]

I apologise to Andrea Camilleri. But ‘a nest of vipers’ is how many describe the Office of the Prime Minister during the corrupt administration of Joseph Muscat, who gained the title of the most corrupt person of the year in 2019. Muscat will be remembered in history as the most corrupt prime minister Malta ever [...]

Lawrence Cutajar told us all who his role model and inspiration in the job of police commissioner would be weeks after he got the job. He held Christmas drinks at police headquarters sometime after his promotion to the top job and invited some of his predecessors. Prominently among them Lawrence Pullicino who had been convicted [...]

The contradictions in Lawrence Cutajar’s answers to Ivan Martin in the Times of Malta interview are damning. He insists he only knew “il-Ġojja”, Edgar Brincat, superficially. He had not spoken to him in a long time, he said. He knew him from when he was a police inspector. He would be at the race course [...]

Please wear a mask or a visor and keep a 2 metre distance from people who do not live in your household. If you're vulnerable or live with someone who is, join the vigil on Facebook. But if you can, join us in Valletta. The criminals who have spoken out said they feared our protests. [...]

This statement was issued by #occupyjustice this evening: Thirty-two months ago, Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated. More recently, like many other countries, Malta lived through the COVID19 pandemic, and today, the country is gearing up to get back to ‘’normality’’. But is this the same “normality” that was promoted by the disgraced Prime Minister Joseph [...]

I remember One TV broadcasting a report showing us throw paper planes through the shuttered gate of police headquarters and describing the scene as if we were armed with man-portable anti-aircraft missiles. There were cruel cartoons shared by Laburisti sal-Mewt. And the sort of hysterical shock at the audacity of criticising the boys in blue. [...]

In April 2018, six months after Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed, Europol was changing bosses. The outgoing director Rob Wainwright needed to reply to a letter from then MEP Ana Gomes who asked for information about progress in the investigation on who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia. Though Rob Wainwright kept to diplomatic decorum, the fact [...]

One of the survivors pushed back to Libya on a fishing trawler hired by the Maltese government has spoken in a detailed exchange seen by this website about the experience of the illegal push-back to Tripoli on 15 April. The survivor, from Eritrea, whose name is not being revealed to protect his safety and that [...]

You have to hand it to him. Since January, Robert Abela has been quite busy. You know, fighting the war against COVID-19 which he conquered easily. He had to address the nation from One TV and give press conferences which lasted hours. Then there were a number of photo opportunities like touching elbows with an [...]