GUEST POST: What matters now

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2019-12-11T10:33:23+01:00Wed, 11th Dec '19, 10:00|

We are being distracted by a race for leadership while Joseph and Keith still weave and spin their web. At this point I believe it is crucial to concentrate on the main matter under consideration. Who ordered Daphne's murder? We should all be asking ourselves whether the State should be prepared to negotiate with a [...]

Occupy Justice to European Council President: take a position on the situation in Malta

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2019-12-11T09:51:18+01:00Wed, 11th Dec '19, 09:51|

The following is a letter sent by #occupyjustice to the President of the European Council Charles Michel President of the European Council Rue de la Loi B-1048 Bruxelles Belgique December 11, 2019 Dear President Michel, The summit being held this week on December 12 and 13, is the first since your appointment as President of [...]

Awards

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2019-12-11T09:46:16+01:00Wed, 11th Dec '19, 09:46|

Paul Caruana Galizia was recognised yesterday as the UK's New Journalist of the Year. Before his was mother was killed, Paul was a published historian. Good history is written by good writers. After his mother was assassinated, Paul diverted his skills to journalism and immediately made a mark. His brothers tweeted yesterday bursting with pride. [...]

The toxicity of Joseph Muscat

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2019-12-11T09:31:35+01:00Wed, 11th Dec '19, 09:31|

Look at the cover story on Panorama. It's about guilt by association. Before the 2017 election, after the Panama scandal came out and when Joseph Muscat called an election a year ahead of time for reasons never fully explained, Matteo Renzi came to a Labour Party meeting to profess his love of the great Joseph. [...]

The small band that captured the country

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2019-12-11T08:53:43+01:00Wed, 11th Dec '19, 08:53|

This post by Labour MEP Alex Agius Saliba is full of lies. The view that Joseph Muscat should resign immediately is not extremist given his office and his staffers have been named in a murder investigation. Civil disobedience is the opposite of anarchy. It is an escalation of protest in defence of the State not [...]

The Republic belongs to its people

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2019-12-13T18:02:23+01:00Wed, 11th Dec '19, 08:39|

It is indicative of how undemocratic and intolerant the paranoid regime is that we are continuously assaulted merely for protesting demanding the prime minister's resignation and justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia. At this point few are prepared to say our demands are not justified. We protested on the 16th of every month for 25 months [...]

If we learn nothing

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2019-12-10T00:03:07+01:00Tue, 10th Dec '19, 00:03|

I was on Brian Hansford's TVM show tonight trying to explain why we are worried the Labour Party will ensure justice will not happen after Joseph Muscat leaves. They think justice will be about putting Yorgen Fenech in prison, long may he stay there. Justice is learning the lessons from what happened to make sure [...]

GUEST POST: Universally Alternate

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2019-12-09T23:24:17+01:00Mon, 9th Dec '19, 23:23|

It’s at times like this that I miss my “I M Beck” persona. The Times’ decision, after some twenty years and more, to discontinue me, for all that I don’t miss looming weekly deadlines, leaves me bereft of the opportunity to have fun with the Great & Good (scratch that) Bad. Not that fun is [...]

LONG READ: The ringing penny

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2019-12-09T17:35:56+01:00Mon, 9th Dec '19, 17:09|

The situation is really troubling. The government’s pretence that everything is OK is becoming increasingly disturbing even to people that have supported Joseph Muscat through thick and thin. This morning I mentioned former Labour MEP Marlene Mizzi and former President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca. They are significant because they are veterans of the Labour Party, [...]

Gaming industry says events in Malta are of “grave and growing concern”

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2019-12-09T16:21:37+01:00Mon, 9th Dec '19, 16:21|

An association of major players in Malta's gaming industry declared that recents events in Malta "have been and continue to be of grave and growing concern to the iGaming industry operating internationally and based in Malta. Like many others, our Industry thrives on stability and demands high standards in rule of law of the institutions [...]

GUEST POST: We, the new generation

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2019-12-09T15:23:16+01:00Mon, 9th Dec '19, 15:21|

The world seems to be in one of those moments when change is afoot. We see the potential of our own son-of-emigrants Mayor Pete Butigieg from Ħamrun in the US who has an outside chance of trumping Trump, at next year’s election or at least having a go as a potential vice president. He will [...]

Joseph Muscat leave now

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2019-12-09T12:12:19+01:00Mon, 9th Dec '19, 12:12|

Everyone is saying it now. Everyone except it seems anyone who wants to be part of the government after Christmas. Former President Marie Louise Coleiro yesterday said "anyone involved in Daphne's murder must leave now". She did not exempt Joseph Muscat. Marlene Mizzi just posted on Facebook calling on Joseph Muscat to leave immediately. These [...]

Here, everyday is anti-corruption day

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2019-12-09T12:07:11+01:00Mon, 9th Dec '19, 12:07|

The Council of Europe today marks the International Day Against Corruption. Here we have been fighting corruption every day for months and years. Here are activists outside Castille right now, and I can't reach the others squatting in the Castille lobby since this morning because the police have locked them in and us out. It's [...]

Forced eviction

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2019-12-09T09:49:00+01:00Mon, 9th Dec '19, 09:49|

Here's Andy Ellul reacting to the ongoing Graffitti sit in protest in the side lobby of the Auberge de Castille. Here's my answer to Andy Ellul. Yes the police should evict anyone breaking the law in the Auberge de Castille because the building deserves respect. Fortunately Keith Schembri is not reporting for duty though the [...]

GUEST POST: The devil’s handshake

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2019-12-09T09:43:43+01:00Mon, 9th Dec '19, 09:43|

What exactly does yesterday’s holy trinity picture represent? It represents all that Malta doesn’t need at this very sensitive time in its political history. Robert Abela wasn’t joking when he referred to the ‘Patt Imxajtan’ (Demonic Pact) which he vowed not to join. Trouble is that the pacts that the devil draws up with us [...]

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