A year ago today

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2019-07-30T10:16:29+02:00Tue, 30th Jul '19, 10:16|

If you've watched The Great Hack on Netflix, it might be interesting for you to re-read this piece I wrote a year ago today. It was around the time the UK House of Commons committee prominently featuring in their documentary issued their interim report and said they had reasons to believe Cambridge Analytica's mother company [...]

‘Buy my silence’ – Saviour Balzan once said

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2019-07-30T10:03:17+02:00Tue, 30th Jul '19, 10:03|

I sincerely sympathise with Matthew Vella and Kurt Sansone who co-signed an editorial in the wake of the storm caused by Lovin Malta’s report that a sister company of Malta Today, both owned by the Managing Editor of that newspaper, is doing PR and advertising work for the government on the burn-down-the-trees project on the [...]

Walking the talk

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2019-07-29T13:32:59+02:00Mon, 29th Jul '19, 12:04|

This morning Adrian Delia woke up to a new dawn as a PN leader with what he might call a fresh mandate. As with everything he’s said and done since he stepped into our public life, his oeuvre today shows he doesn’t have the first idea what that means. Consider this brief quote from his [...]

Do the right thing

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2019-07-27T09:35:27+02:00Sat, 27th Jul '19, 09:35|

Surprises are by definition things you do not expect. So let us not indulge in fantasies of alternative universes where the Partit Nazzjonalista presents to the electorate a better alternative prime minister than Adrian Delia. Councillors vote today. Many of them will secretly cast their vote against Adrian Delia’s confirmation, too many for any illusion [...]

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 [...]

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