The Times of Malta today quotes Konrad Mizzi saying he regrets setting up a company through Mossack Fonseca in Panama. Of course, he does. If he set it up with any other bent law firm in any other banana republic without a John Doe spilling the beans his political life would have been much easier. [...]
Repubblika, #occupyjustice and manueldelia.com have come together to organise events during the month of October 2019 to mark two years since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The truth about Daphne’s murder is not yet known. No one has been convicted of her murder yet and no one has even been charged for planning, [...]
The Court of Criminal Appeal has overturned a magistrate’s order for an inquiry to look into the conduct of ministers Konrad Mizzi, Chris Cardona and Edward Scicluna in the sale of three public hospitals to VGH. The decision, which came more than six weeks after the Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit’s original order to start an [...]
Somewhere on the way to Brussels, Helena Dalli was blinded by a bright light and fell off her horse with the deep voice of truth ringing in her ears. She realised she was persecuting the wrong people and now says if she were Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri and Joseph Muscat she 'would have done things [...]
I hesitate to write this. Explaining feminism to women is the ultimate form of mansplaining. I don’t like being the patronising sod who insists on explaining the off-side rule when they’re not too sure of it themselves. But when Helena Dalli described the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia as ‘femicide’, it rankled. I suppose etymologically [...]
(Updated with Editorial Note at 21:50) Editorial Note: The commentary below alleges that Bishop Grech arranged for the sale of a diocese-owned apartment to be sold to a relative of his. Its author insists they base their claim on multiple sources. However, I was contacted by Fr Eddie Zammit, personal assistant of Bishop Grech and personally [...]
Must we be treated like idiots every step of the way? Two days ago, security guards at the university silenced a protest by Moviment Graffitti on the university campus. It looked at first like it might have been the initiative of a low-ranking security guard. But then the university issued a statement saying why it [...]
Adrian Delia did some press-ups this morning. And yesterday there was this. If you live in this country, this, I'm sorry to say, is your life. U ejja? Mela!
Congratulations Adrian Delia. I couldn't do one of those to save my life. I'm sure it will come in handy in the upcoming budget debate.
A Magistrate has referred lawyer Jean-Philippe Chetcuti to the Chamber of Advocates because of a breach of the code of ethics for lawyers. Magistrate Caroline Farrugia Frendo referred the senior partner of the Chetcuti Cauchi law-firm in the wake of Repubblika’s request for an inquiry into alleged trading in influence in the sale of Maltese [...]
Event organised by Repubblika, #occupyjustice and manueldelia.com Daphne Caruana Galizia’s writing attracts continued attention, both in Malta and abroad. What are those aspects of form, style and pitch that give her writing its power? Aside from their political impacts, why might they invite closer commentary and analysis? And how do they connect with – and [...]
La Repubblica and Daphne Project journalist Carlo Bonini, former BBC Newsnight and Panorama Reporter John Sweeney and myself have co-authored a book telling the story of Daphne Caruana Galizia: her life and work, her assassination and what has happened since then. Telling the story of Daphne is telling the story of Malta. During the past [...]
If we are judged by the nature of our enemies, then Daphne Caruana Galizia should be remembered as a hero of our time. She was Malta’s most fearless journalist until someone with money and power decided that she should be silenced forever. Her assassination was a brutal blow to anyone who cares about the [...]
On 27 June the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution demanding that Malta show progress in fighting the culture of impunity here that allows politicians to get away with corruption and the masterminds behind Daphne’s assassination to get away with murder. They did not give Malta a deadline within which to [...]
What the university did yesterday should be met by outrage. Moviment Graffitti lampooned Ian Borg during Freshers’ Week, the yearly fair that is meant to help orientate new university students but which has become a fair for predatory recruiters and bankers to exploit just that disorientation. Graffitti put on a mask with Ian Borg’s face [...]
Were they consulting the deputy assistant latrine attendant of the anteroom to the staff kitchen? They sure were not consulting the Legal and Human Rights Committee of the Council, or the special rapporteur first appointed by that Committee and then confirmed by the Parliamentary Assembly. We know that because today Pieter Omtzigt reported to the [...]
We should have known better. All those lawyers and accountants who went into this should have known better. We all should have known that something based on a lie would get us into trouble. The sale of citizenship scheme was sold by Joseph Muscat as a magnet for talent. But even as he said that [...]
Antoine Zammit, for a couple of months the chief financial officer of the nationalist party, is an easy target. The home-made video of him explaining to his clients how to get their bootleg TV connection to access porn has split sides all afternoon yesterday. Before the day was out, he was made to resign. Don’t [...]
How many of these documentaries must we see before more of us realise that the passport sales scheme is going to sink this country? The editorial of The Sunday Times today calls for the scheme to be scrapped. Adrian Delia yesterday called for the scheme to be scrapped. Daphne Caruana Galizia called for the scheme [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Let me translate pizzo to ‘silent partner’, and then things will feel more familiar. "In hushed whispers, many will admit that there are sectors of our economy that are not open to all that may be interested. And for those that are allowed in, there’s an [...]