The comparative analysis is based on the accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission in accordance with the Financing of the Political Parties Act, and the guidelines issued by the Electoral Commission. I do not intend to comment on every line item, but only on the most material ones. INCOME Comments During 2018, the PN [...]

July 2017. The government reverses a standing police policy to insist that police officers have an exemplary record. Instead policemen who have been fired or have left the corps because of criminal offences would now be able to wear the uniform again. There the government sent a very important and very ominous signal. The police [...]

For all the talk of an elite clan in the PN who have been preventing Adrian Delia from bringing in new faces, the party leader has an obvious difficulty to produce officials that can be described as new. Francis Zammit Dimech is interim secretary general of the PN now. There were no other candidates for [...]

Heroes do not put a stop to the current mess at the PN by mumbling to Adrian Delia at parliamentary group meetings only to be ignored. It is not heroic to live in perpetual hope as an asteroid tumbles on an inexorable collision course with your attic. Hope, without action, is a dangerous thing. As [...]

Trolls who support Adrian Delia are full of venom these days for people identified as ‘blue 17’. The Adrian Delia trolls, presumably concerned that 17 is a very large number when deducted from 28, have shortlisted 10 usual suspects and called them Judas, traitors. I got a shade of that too. People tell me my [...]

So today it seems we’re back to the waiting game. Replacing Clyde Puli and Robert Arrigo will be side shows in which, one would imagine, the support base Adrian Delia still enjoys will be measured. That only really depends on whether there will be candidates that clearly represent a position in favour or against Adrian [...]

Someone who means well put up a collage of 17 members of the PN parliamentary group and labelled them “17 Blue Heroes”. They’ve been identified as the small majority in the group that has told Adrian Delia to pack his bags. As a snapshot of what happened the last time the PN’s parliamentary group met [...]

Sent in by Spartacus. What Sidney Smith (a clergyman and author) said of George Canning after the latter became Prime Minister in 1827: “Canning in office is like a fly in amber. Nobody cares about the fly; the only question is: How the hell did he get there?” (The reader is advised to substitute Adrian [...]

Adrian Delia’s act of schoolyard bullying from this morning has to be some sort of turning point. For everyone else, if not for him. In an earlier piece, I wrote how Adrian Delia compared the investigations into his Soho affairs with the evidence planted on Pietru Pawl Busuttil’s farm to frame him for the murder [...]

At a meeting of the PN parliamentary group Adrian Delia lamented the lack of sympathy he found from his parliamentary colleagues after a police superintendent confirmed in open court that the police are investigating reasonable suspicions of money laundering when Adrian Delia allegedly helped a London prostitution ring clean proceeds from crime. Superintendent Ray Aquilina [...]

Sent in by someone known to me. “Don’t allow the Government to blackmail the Opposition Leader” Partit Nazzjonalista leader Adrian Delia in a hysteric rant on the party radio on Sunday urged party supporters to not allow the government to blackmail the Opposition Leader. Only for the graduate lawyer conveniently forgetting to point out that [...]

Adrian Delia thinks nothing can bring him down. He draws on to an imaginary past where titans led parties and no one could touch them. He conveniently forgets their hard work behind the scenes. In the past three years since he’s been on the scene people have weaved all sorts of conspiracies to try to [...]

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Join us at the Great Siege Square in Valletta on 16 February 2020 at 18:30 to continue the fight for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia. And for all our country.

This four-part series is written by a retired professional who keeps tabs on what is going on in the social sector and particularly on developments in the public social work services sector. None of the people mentioned in this series have any clue about what is being written about them. Their permission to be mentioned [...]

Adrian Delia’s case for his stubborn permanence at the headship of the PN is flimsier than ever. He said yesterday he did not want to betray those who wanted the PN to be closer to the people. Who’s that? The 13% who said they trust him? Because nobody else is impressed with his efforts so [...]

The PN are asking people to send them money because it’s Eddie Fenech Adami’s birthday tomorrow. There can’t be a worse day for PN supporters to be nostalgic for the days of Eddie Fenech Adami. The fact is there won’t be anyone like him and people need to start getting used to the idea of [...]

US prosecutors have charged Bahram Karimi with busting US sanctions against his native Iran. The bill of indictment lists but does not identify two co-conspirators with Bahram Karimi. Financial crime blogger Kenneth Rijock identified in a post today the two co-conspirators as Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad and his father Mohammed Sayed Hashemi Nejad reputedly one [...]

PN stalwart Louis Galea, engaged by Adrian Delia in 2019 to recommend reforms to revive the party, published a letter he wrote today to the party leader insisting on immediate changes to the leadership. In the letter Louis Galea complains that the party leadership has dragged its feet for several months after Adrian Delia had [...]