Several Sicilian town councils are expressing misgivings and regret about the expenses they have made in hosting Ray Bondin believing he was either Malta’s Ambassador to UNESCO or an official from the UN organisation itself. Over several years Ray Bondin has ‘advised’ Sicilian town councils in their applications to UNESCO to have their towns or [...]

The reaction of Labour’s trolls to the BBC Radio series on Daphne Caruana Galizia’s life illustrates the venom and oppressive abuse no dramatisation can fully explain in the way witnessing real experience can. Saviour Balzan, Tony Zarb and the others did not actually listen to the full series yet. Very few people have. Most can [...]

Coverage on the national broadcaster TVM and on Malta Today was pathetic because it was possibly the worst day ever to follow the line of the Labour Party's media on anything. Labour had been getting ready for months to celebrate the transfiguration of the "kink" Joseph Muscat into the blinding light of European glory. In retrospect, [...]

This in depth story about the ‘Mystery Professor’ Joseph Mifsud in yesterday’s The Washington Post makes fascinating reading. In the absence of the man, the two sides of the question on the extent of Russian meddling in US elections grasp at hints in the vague trails left in Joseph Mifsud’s past to prove their side [...]

The PN today started its arguments in the Court of Appeal to try to have a decision to refuse Adrian Delia a copy of the Egrant report overturned. And it based those arguments on a court application filed by Repubblika in its own court action asking for an inquiry to start into the hospitals privatisations. [...]

Not that he’s spending too much time on the beach. He was answering Newsbook’s challenge on why three Sundays in a row he gave exclusive access to the political field to Joseph Muscat and abstained from any public events or policy statements on Sundays. Newsbook calls the Sunday events “traditional” and describes the party leaders’ [...]

Statement by Repubblika of today: https://youtu.be/ibNZVROabN8 An English version of the text of the statement follows: Repubblika is disappointed by the reaction of the Maltese Government and Maltese institutions with regard to the appeals made by Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for more transparency in the rule of law in Malta. This reaction [...]

Two Italian journalists who live under continuous police escort provided by the State because of their journalism on the mafia and organised crime have launched a change.org petition calling on the implementation by Malta of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly’s resolution of last week. The petition specifically calls on the government to initiate an [...]

All those flamboyant reassurances we were given that the future for BoV was bright were turned to dust by the story in The Sunday Times of Malta today telling us that the financial regulator has given the bank an ultimatum to get its house in order. The appearance of the story is the greatest indicator [...]

A campaign of bullying and intimidation is underway within the Nationalist Party that is focused principally on General Councillors who were known to support Adrian Delia in his leadership campaign and during several months of his time in office but have since shown signs of doubts about whether the party leader should remain in office. [...]

Political parties are dodging the ‘rule of law’ by making a mockery of its meaning. Both parties used the phrase yesterday in contexts where the phrase is only marginally relevant. They used it in that childish “mhux int trid ir-rool off low ħi? Mel’issa oqgħod għaliha ta!” schoolyard retort. The Nationalist Party yesterday said in [...]

Neville Gafa’ is now recognised at last as officially speaking on behalf of Malta’s government when visiting Libya. No more mincing words, trying to pass his trips as “private holidays” in sun soaked Tripoli. And that’s supposed to be that. The fact he has a pending case for being at the centre of a visa [...]

The following is a statement issued by Daphne Caruana Galizia's family today: The resolution of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly adopted by an overwhelming majority yesterday evening has brought our family closer to the truth: that Daphne would still be alive today if corruption in Malta were properly investigated and prosecuted by the authorities, if [...]

Commenters for the Labour Party who are trying to look at the bright side of yesterday’s diplomatic disaster are banking on the fact that the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s resolution is not legally binding and cannot therefore force the government to change its ways. It’s not like just because they’ve been resoundingly condemned by [...]

The guest writer John Christmas writes for www.lawlesslatvia.com. As the exiled whistleblower against the Latvian Proxy Network, and a Malta resident, I noticed a common source of corruption. Eurostat is a Directorate General of the European Commission, with a mission proclaimed on its website of providing ‘high quality statistics’ because ‘democratic societies do not function [...]

Preamble  Notwithstanding the socio-political and multicultural challenges, Christian Democratic parties, particularly in Europe, are still influential.  CD parties seek inspiration from the teachings of Thomas Aquinas and express their relationship to the Gospel and the churches as a dialogue, resulting in a political conviction.  Since their early days they had distanced themselves from the churches. This [...]

Use this link from Monday to listen to the broadcast of the first of a 5 part series of radio drama based on the story of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Here's the trailer of the show: The show is written by Lizzie Nunnery and Alys Harte. Alys Harte has already covered an aspect of [...]

Listen, you small minded tossers, if you’re going to invest all your fixations on a blogger and their keyboard and pin on them the greatest political catastrophe since Louis XVI decided to cancel refurbishment works in the Versailles tennis court, make the effort of getting your insults right. You can call me a pseudo-journalist, say, [...]

The crisis of the Nationalist Party is coming to some sort of resolution. There was never any suggestion that Adrian Delia was in control of his party. The fact that a General Council meeting is being forced on him to ask a question he ruled out – whether he should stay on as leader – [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Mark Chetcuti’s judgment about the db project permit being null and void is sound. But the logical extension of that judgment is that the entire infrastructure of our governance ought to be declared just as null and just as void." Read the full article here.