Even God doesn’t like my blog, apparently

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2019-07-26T20:45:07+02:00Fri, 26th Jul '19, 15:32|

The meme above is my attempt at humour but here below is the inspiration. Sample some of the posts on my Facebook wall. There are other Facebook walls that are featuring yours truly today but I should like to think it does not get much worse than this. It's a nice job if you can [...]

Strategic timing

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2019-07-26T02:12:23+02:00Fri, 26th Jul '19, 02:12|

The PN statement defending the Great Leader from my “attakk viljakk u personali fuq Adrian Delia” makes a lot of fuss about the fact that today’s stories appeared before Adrian Delia faces a confidence motion at the PN General Council this Saturday. In fact, the full heading of the statement, reproduced below, is “Cowardly and [...]

Mediation efforts in Adrian Delia separation fail. Court case opens “in coming days”.

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2019-07-25T18:03:34+02:00Thu, 25th Jul '19, 18:02|

The judicial protest filed today by a lawyer appearing for Nickie Vella de Fremeaux, Adrian Delia’s wife, reveals that mediation efforts to settle the terms of their separation has failed. The judicial protest states that Nickie Vella de Fremeaux has sought and obtained the court’s permission to open a lawsuit against her estranged husband which [...]

Court documents reveal Adrian Delia missed repayments for mortgages, credit cards and overdraft

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2019-07-25T17:00:18+02:00Thu, 25th Jul '19, 17:00|

The extent of Adrian Delia’s financial troubles have been laid bare in freely available court documents obtained from the Court Registry by this website. Adrian Delia was reminded in a judicial protest filed in court today by lawyer Albert Libreri representing the Leader of the Opposition’s wife Nickie Vella de Fremeaux of five written reminders [...]

Why I must write this and why you should read it

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2019-07-25T15:55:45+02:00Thu, 25th Jul '19, 15:55|

It is right to feel uncomfortable reading about the personal affairs of others, even of people who live their lives so publicly. What is discussed in a dispute between members of an estranged couple is not normally a matter of interest to those who are not members of that couple. But here is why you [...]

Ciao Darwin

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2019-07-25T11:12:46+02:00Thu, 25th Jul '19, 11:12|

Netflix released this week a documentary version of the Black Mirror episode from our past. 'The Great Hack' is a documentary that tells the story of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and how this was unpacked with the help of whistleblowers by The Guardian and Parliamentary Committees in the UK and the US. https://youtu.be/iX8GxLP1FHo   You [...]

Eligibility

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2019-07-25T10:18:07+02:00Thu, 25th Jul '19, 10:18|

The PN administration has justified the major reshuffle in the composition of the General Council voting Saturday when compared with the composition of the General Council that shortlisted Adrian Delia for election for leadership on the back of objective changes in the people eligible to be members. The clearest example of this is the case [...]

Is this a dagger which I see before me?

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2019-07-25T10:20:01+02:00Thu, 25th Jul '19, 09:09|

Adrian Delia went on the TV station he controls yesterday to indulge in some of the discourse of his first campaign to become party leader, albeit in a considerably more equanimous tone. Put simply his message is that after Saturday’s vote he’s turning a fresh page in the party’s history. He is fully charged to [...]

The government should publish the Moneyval report

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2019-07-24T13:50:42+02:00Wed, 24th Jul '19, 13:50|

Even if Edward Scicluna claims to disagree with any of it, it does not help anyone that the government keeps the report of the Council of Europe's committee of experts on the evaluation of anti-money laundering measures and the financing of terrorism (Moneyval) under wraps. The Moneyval process is in principle confidential. But Rule 29 [...]

GUEST POST: Of killing marigolds

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2019-07-24T11:18:23+02:00Wed, 24th Jul '19, 11:18|

Sent in by Libertas: No matter how hopeful and optimistic, no matter up to what extent a party outsider affords party politicians the benefit of doubt, no matter an outsider’s determination to encourage reconciliation and dialogue amongst humans of a different mind, the historical event being held on the 27th July at the Stamperija is [...]

Does he really have the time to watch movies?

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2019-07-24T08:54:35+02:00Wed, 24th Jul '19, 08:54|

The Government Gazette announced yesterday that the newly minted chief of government communications has been given a part-time job. Matthew Carbone, who one would expect is working 20 hour days, has been appointed to the Film Review Board which is set up by law to watch movies that another board has classified with an age [...]

He said. They said.

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2019-07-24T12:06:22+02:00Wed, 24th Jul '19, 08:43|

Jean Claude Juncker enjoyed his day in the sun yesterday. He is nearing his retirement and looks like he has as much appetite for battle as a lottery winner. Clearly Joseph Muscat’s charms still work wonders on him and the easy ride our prime minister had with Juncker’s Commission was perfectly represented in that embrace. [...]

Isn’t it ironic?

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2019-07-23T08:22:38+02:00Tue, 23rd Jul '19, 08:18|

Not quite like rain on your wedding day, but Louise Tedesco headlines her Times of Malta opinion piece today by branding critics of PN leader Adrian Delia as the 'Barra Brigade'. That phrase recalls the PN's campaign when the Panama Papers broke and it turned out that Malta would have the only politicians in the [...]

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