Whenever someone pops in from the outside to look at what’s happening in this country, we are reminded we’re not entirely mad. Because sometimes that’s how they make you feel. Last Friday Ann De Marco proudly outed herself as the woman responsible to restore the Daphne Caruana Galizia protest site in the Great Siege Square [...]
I got this now from Robert Arrigo. He sure works hard on his location scouting. Montekristo Estates. Seabank Hotel. I suppose Robert Musumeci would call these 'moral integers'. As opposed to moral fractions? Moral decimals? Moral percentiles?
An Interview with the AUM’s John Ryder Part 1 This series of articles by Lizzie Eldrige is based on a 2 hour recorded interview with Professor John Ryder, recently retired Provost of the American University of Malta. The interview was conducted on 23rd July 2019. Imagine you [...]
From my article in The Sunday Times today: "The sophistry that Hermann Schiavone’s actions were not illegal is familiar. We get it all the time as the central justification of the snorting at the trough that Labour has developed into a system of government. "But is that not the point of ethics, to judge between [...]
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Repubblika statement. Repubblika expresses its renewed sadness and frustration at photographs of private individuals who last night vandalised mementos left by protesters in Great Siege Square, Valletta, 22 months to the day after the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The vandals mocked, destroyed and trashed photographs of Daphne Caruana Galizia and a protest banner that [...]
A short time after last night's vigil someone on Robert Musumeci's mission to remind the HTT (holier than though for those of you not entirely au fait with the avukat-perit's lingo) how objectionable the politics of hate is, went up to the protest site in Great Siege Square to tear down a picture of Daphne [...]
Statement by #occupyjustice: #OccupyJustice activists this evening commemorated 22 months since the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia by unfurling a banner featuring an image of the journalist with the legend ‘Invicta’ at the Great Siege Monument in Valletta. ‘Invicta’, meaning ‘unconquered’, is also the inspiration for Invictus, a poem by English poet William Ernest Henley. [...]
The New York trial of Iranian banker Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad has been pushed back to January 2020 and may be postponed further if a hearing due in a few days determines he needs to replace his lawyers because of a conflict with other clients of theirs. Ali Sadr’s firm of defence lawyers Steptoe & [...]
This is a statement by Repubblika: The President’s statement of today is appalling on so many counts. Firstly, it is wrong on facts. Repubblika indeed sent President George Vella a letter on 15th March to his private residence informing him of our submissions to his predecessor Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, then still in office. In [...]
Continues from yesterday's piece by Godfrey Leone Ganado who looks at the financial statements filed by the Labour and Nationalist parties under electoral law … and pokes his fingers in the many holes. The comparative analysis is based on the accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission in accordance with the Financing of the Political Parties [...]
Ever so often it’s time to bring this picture up again. This time it’s about pezzonovante Engelbert Grech who used to be Film Commissioner — that’s the government agency that promotes the film industry — and now in the private business of providing production services for international film producers. In this photo of our very [...]
Some really weird things are happening around the case of Darren Debono. The authorities of Italy and the United States are after him. But he seems to be chasing the Maltese authorities rather than the other way round. In Italy, he’s being tried for fuel smuggling after the Dirty Oil investigation by the Italian authorities [...]
Archbishop Charles Scicluna may find he has little effective means of exerting discipline on David Muscat, the cleric who insists he has no regrets about speaking in praise of Adolf Hitler admirer Norman Lowell in a gathering of white supremacists celebrating Lowell’s birthday. The bishop may have the technical authority to order his priest to [...]
Judge Giovanni Grixti agreed with Ministers Edward Scicluna, Konrad Mizzi and Chris Cardona that an inquiry into the privatisation of three states hospitals ordered by Magistrate Claire Zammit Stafrace should not start while some of the suspects — the Ministers — have appealed the order. This in spite of the fact that a fourth suspect, [...]
