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 [...]

This is from Joe Bloggs under my earlier post on the Panama Gang's decision not to appeal the inquiry started by Magistrate Charmaine Galea into the Panama Papers and 17 Black. "A boiled frog only realises that it is dead when it is too late. Why would Konrad Mizzi need to appeal & waste more [...]

Continues from yesterday's article on 'Mintoffiansim and Muscatism. Labour's twisted theology in practice'. Part 3: The Maltese Enlightenment Dom Mintoff’s hero was Napoleon, the most accomplished alumnus of the French Enlightenment. The Illuminati derived their name from Lucifer and consider themselves disciples of the Angel of Light. Their synthetic precepts are a pagan distortion of [...]

The Malta Independent this morning recorded that Konrad Mizzi has decided not to appeal Magistrate Doreen Clarke’s order for Magistrate Charmaine Galea to gather evidence of his involvement in the Panama Papers and the 17 Black scandal. That’s only part of the story. The real story is that now the time allowed for appeal from [...]

Continues from yesterday's guest article on 'Mintoffianism and Muscatism: Labour's twisted theology in practice'. The Nationalists under Eddie Fenech Adami inherited a broken impoverished country which they painstakingly rehabilitated to almost first world status despite fierce opposition from Labour. In particular, they built a solid productive economic model. This is what Muscat inherited at the [...]

Continues from yesterday’s guest article on “the psychology of the Labour movement”. Part 2: Mintoffianism and Muscatism. Labour’s twisted theology in practice. For his movement to maintain its raison d’être, Mintoff always had to create a bête noire in his follower’s mind - be it the Church, the Nationalists, the independent press, the West or the [...]

The First Hall of the Civil Court today heard arguments from lawyers for Repubblika and the Attorney General on the case brought by Repubblika challenging the recent appointment of six new members of the judiciary under rules the Venice Commission found meant Malta’s judiciary was not independent. The Court heard arguments from Simon Busuttil and [...]

The Constitutional Court turned down a request by Konrad Mizzi’s lawyers today to allow him to appeal from its earlier decision to allow Repubblika and MP Simon Busuttil to intervene in his case claiming his human rights are breached by the law that allowed Repubblika and Simon Busuttil to file a complaint he broke the [...]

Pelin Unker with MEP David Casa and Repubblika President Marion Pace Asciak. (16.03.2019) Maltese MEP and free speech campaigner David Casa announced earlier today in a tweet that Turkish journalist Pelin Unker has had her 13-month prison sentence for defamation quashed by the Turkish superior courts. Unker had been convicted of defamation after [...]