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There’s more room for electoral blackmail at the Labour ranks of Air Malta. Other public entities will likely follow. You’ve got to hand it to Labour though. They will treat democratic institutions with disdain, the law of the land with contempt and the rules of basic decency with an oblivious forgetfulness of a recanting heretic. [...]

This is Joseph Mangion, a police officer and voluntary guardian of the questionable reputation of Labour VIPs. He came to prominence in June last year censoring Reuters photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi who was reporting on an Il-Kenniesa action on the steps of Castille that involved a mock Konrad Mizzi in a prison jumpsuit. Being himself [...]

Continues from yesterday's article on 'Malta's Joan of Arc' Cracks are appearing in the Labour monolith. Friction is developing between the party faithful and those opportunists who converted to the Labour creed, so much so that the son of Malta’s ex-president pleaded to the party leadership in a shameful speech to take better care of [...]

Friday, 17 May 2019 10:16 Correction: An earlier version of this article wrongly attributed the comparison of Daphne Caruana Galizia with Joan of Arc to Ranier Fsadni. The correct attribution is to Steve Flinders.   Continues from yesterday's article on 'the role of capital'. Part 6: Malta's Joan of Arc Steve Flinders compared Daphne Caruana Galizia [...]

This post by Kristina Abela is written on the 71st anniversary of the 1948 war that Palestinians remember as "al nakba", or 'the disaster'. It's a perspective of that war that is controversial and there are other points of view. But whatever your politics and what political conclusions you draw from that story of 71 [...]

Continues from yesterday's article on 'the role of capital'. Enter into the scene the inflated pretender Joseph Muscat. He inherited a country with strong economic foundations thanks to the work done by previous Nationalist administrations. At the time of the administration change, the economy was in the process of rebounding skywards because the world recession [...]

The Court turned down Adrian Delia’s complaints that in refusing him a copy of the Egrant inquiry report, the Attorney General denied him his rights to express himself as a watchdog of government or discriminated against him by treating the Labour Party differently and favourably compared with how he treated the Nationalist Party. Adrian Delia [...]

Continues from yesterday's article on 'Children of the Moon' Part 5: The role of capital The musical social critic Alan Parsons Project in the lyrics of their song ‘Money Talks’  highlights the effect of corruption on a disenfranchised subject and how money can either make or break a state. Money don’t grow on a money [...]

Repubblika Press Release Moments ago Repubblika filed a sworn application with the Duty Magistrate asking for a Magisterial Inquiry into the scandal of the privatisation of Karin Grech, St Luke's and Gozo General hospitals. In its detailed application, Repubblika showed how Ministers Edward Scicluna, Chris Cardona and Konrad Mizzi gave an unfair and disproportionate advantage [...]

I will stick to my determined and stubborn policy of not discussing the pros and cons of abortion while the matter is not a real issue of choice for voters here. I will likely not go into the merits of the issue even if it were to become a real political question, at least until [...]

Continues from yesterday's article on 'Children of the Moon' Adrian Delia will not only be a liability for the Nationalist Party but will also become a threat to the future of democracy in Malta. If despite the MEP election results, Delia vows to stay on, it will only infuriate the Nationalists further, making matters worse. [...]

A decision is expected this week on Adrian Delia’s request to the court to order the attorney general to publish the Egrant report in full. There is a chance the decision will be favourable and the leader of the opposition becomes in possession of secret knowledge that so far has been the exclusive purview of [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "It helps to understand why we got to have a European Parliament and European elections in the first place. The alien that snatched the body of Martin Scicluna and now walks around impersonating him wrote last Thursday “our six representatives are not sent to Brussels or Strasbourg [...]

Continues from yesterday's article on 'the Maltese Enlightenment' Part 4: Children of the Moon In an Eye in the Sky Realm, the worshippers live in the light basking in all the resources that the high priest rewards them with. By contrast, the non-worshippers have to live in the dark. They are the children of the [...]

Continues from yesterday's article on 'the Maltese Enlightenment'. Displacing Labour is no easy task. Rather, these socialist parties self-destruct as a result of hubristic economic mismanagement. In Dom Mintoff’s bleak republic, he indulged in strident social engineering but was ultimately thwarted in his objective of a one-party state by the strong leadership of the Nationalist [...]

Former financial crime investigator Jonathan Ferris has claimed his right to freedom from discrimination has been breached by the Police Commissioner who ignored his application to reinstate him in the police corps after Ferris was summarily fired from the FIAU. Ferris is also citing the original refusal to second him to the FIAU as being [...]

AirHelp has ranked Malta International Airport among the world’s worst in its yearly rankings. It ranked Air Malta, Malta’s state-owned airline a mediocre 51st in a ranking of 72 airlines. Air Help is a global “justice as a service” company that helps customer manage complaints against airlines and airports. MIA ranks 128th in a ranking [...]

A few days ago I attended an event in Rome where representatives of churches and religious denominations, together with the Italian national union of journalists, Amnesty International and other free speech organisations signed 'the Assisi charter'. This is a document that is a manual for people who write, whether as professional journalists, or as individuals [...]