Frans Timmermans (left) at a PL event in May The European Commission is “currently studying in detail” a report adopted by the Committee for Justice and Human Rights of the Council of Europe that recommended that EU institutions act on the breakdown of rule of law in Malta if Maltese authorities continue to [...]

This is the second part of a series arising from an interview with an ex-staff member at the AUM. Part 1 is here. According to the information originally published on its website, the American University of Malta ‘was officially born on 16 September 2016’ although what it was actually doing at this time is open [...]

Or at least by their advocate. Maurice Mizzi, holder of what I have described as “the most pompous, highfalutin, bombastic balderdash of a title ever awarded to anyone by a republic” or “Guardian of Future Generations” should be in a spot of trouble because of his bigoted, racist, islamophobic remarks made in a recent interview [...]

Sent in by someone known to me that goes by the name of 'Libertas'. When discussing the current political scenario it would perhaps entail taking a back seat and possibly be as objective as possible. The absence of mature political thinking (ideologies is a big unedifying word) in all parties could be an offspring of [...]

The need to fix Malta's governance framework was 1 of 3 priorities identified by the European Commission for Malta to deliver on the "stability program" as an EU member state. The stability program measures compliance with economic policies of the countries in the EU and identifies weaknesses that need adjusting to ensure economic stability into [...]

Leaks happen when the plumbing is not working well. Somewhere in the flow of information and decision-making things are getting stuck, pressure behind the blockage mounts and vulnerabilities and risk end up gushing out of unintended openings. People are admonishing some PN MPs and officials — some who have resigned and others who haven’t — [...]

Timothy Alden is Deputy Leader of the Partit Demokratiku. He wrote in on World Environment Day which also happens to be the eve of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. It has been 75 years since D-Day when humanity mobilised against an inhuman ideology. 75 years down the line, who would have imagined that today we would [...]

Sent in by someone known to me. Democracy keeps hitting a new low in Malta month after month. In other parts of Europe, party leaders shouldered the responsibility for electoral losses last month by calling it quits. That's what leadership is about. As a Maltese voter, my message to Adrian Delia and all Maltese politicians is short [...]

Edward Scicluna, Chris Cardona and Konrad Mizzi replied in Court giving their reasons why an inquiry should not be conducted to look into their conduct in the VGH Hospitals scandal. At this point, their guilt or innocence is not being examined. The question being looked at is whether there is enough that is known to [...]

  There were two interviews on the online newspapers today. The Times of Malta interviewed Adrian Delia. The Malta Independent interviewed Mark Anthony Sammut. Watch them both. The topics covered in the interviews have been extensively covered in the press, including this website over the last several days. And the online newspapers themselves summarise the [...]

Henry S Pace sent in the following comment under an anonymous Guest Post: ' Sent in by someone I know. ' Delia this sentence has to stop once and for all. All those who want to hide their name are not worth a pinch of salt. Quite apart from the abrasiveness which seems to be [...]

Correction uploaded at 10:57 of 05/06/2019. Jean Pierre Debono published a redacted scan of a deposit that appears to be his monthly salary into what he says is his bank account. I don’t blame him. Stories have been making the rounds that he’s somehow raking it in and that he’s clinging onto some pot of [...]

Following on from an article recently published in The Shift News, this is the first part of a series by Lizzie Eldridge arising from an interview with an ex-staff member at the American University of Malta (AUM). The series pursues a range of links and pathways triggered by this interview. There’s an absurdist play by [...]

Starting this afternoon this website is publishing a series by Lizzie Eldridge on the American University of Malta. This first series of 6 in-depth articles will examine the context of the licensing of this self-described academic institution and how the artistic impressions of students studying in the sun dockside in Bormla have so far remained [...]

Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb planted by hired assassins in her car. She was killed because of the work she was doing uncovering crime and corruption. The government says this was not an assassination. That alone is a reason to protest. There are many others. The vigil is called by Repubblika, [...]

Sent in by someone I know. I should add that guest posts like this one are unsolicited and coming from people whose direct engagement with politics is limited to voting and being aware of what's going on. Adrian Delia in his Times Talk interview today says he's 'frustrated' with MPs who slag him off. It's [...]

Times Talk is interviewing Adrian Delia again tomorrow. We only saw snippets of the interview today and it doesn’t look like they’re going to discuss the Council of Europe report that found Malta’s rule of law crashing around our ears, or the PN’s economic policy, or climate change, or Adrian Delia’s solution to the intractable [...]

In a shocking response to the Byline Times a person identified by that website as the “head of communications for the Maltese government” said the word “‘assassination’ is a very politically loaded word, which I refute”. Though the government has up to now avoided using the term “assassination” when describing the killing of Daphne Caruana [...]

If you haven’t seen Jean Pierre Debono’s “explanation”, do so before you read this. He has written his denials, his excuses and his explanations such as they are and I published them in their entirety because fairness demands it. But here’s the thing. The credibility of Jean Pierre Debono’s ‘apology’ rests on the assumption that [...]

12:49 Adds Jean Pierre Debono's letter In a brief Net News post, the PN announced Jean Pierre Debono told Adrian Delia he will "not accept the Parliamentary seat that was assigned to him in a democratic process within the structures of the PN". Net News said they would provide further information at a later stage. [...]