David did no dodging

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2019-03-19T08:39:38+01:00Tue, 19th Mar '19, 08:05|

The attempted frame-up of David Casa shows all the hallmarks of what Joseph Muscat’s supporters wanted the Egrant case to be like.  It was cooked up in the middle of the night at the desk of a propagandist who describes himself, wholly undeservedly, as a journalist, quoting a source who is a fantasist mired in [...]

Why say no?

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2019-03-19T07:25:16+01:00Tue, 19th Mar '19, 07:25|

Ranier Fsadni made a very important point last Sunday writing on The Shift News. He said he was not sold on the idea that the protest at the Great Siege memorial in Valletta was removed every day because of some naive ambition on the part of the government to get people to forget the matter [...]

THE SUNDAY TIMES: Bearing witness

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2019-03-17T10:02:10+01:00Sun, 17th Mar '19, 10:02|

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Christ-like, the sacrifice of Falcone and Borsellino proved cathartic. They were as unwilling to be killed for their mission as Jesus in the Gethsemane. But they were as determined to bear witness and did not walk away from their own end. When Falcone died, mafia boss Tommaso [...]

Evarist Bartolo saves the planet

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2019-03-15T14:13:30+01:00Fri, 15th Mar '19, 14:13|

A few Maltese pupils joined protesters of school age from across the world to protest inaction in fighting climate change. The whole point of the protest is to tell people in power they must get off their butts and somehow halt the inexorable dive towards catastrophe that we seem so collectively keen to indulge in. [...]

Why worry about Facebook when you have Malta’s Labour TV?

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2019-03-15T13:46:18+01:00Fri, 15th Mar '19, 13:45|

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were under fire throughout today because their automatic filters and their human monitors failed to block a video filmed by one of the terrorist attackers in the New Zealand massacre of last night. The big social media networks scrambled to reverse the error and take down the video and to remove [...]

Sant’Egidio community remembers Daphne Caruana Galizia

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2019-03-16T06:57:36+01:00Fri, 15th Mar '19, 04:10|

Catholic lay organisation, the Communita' di Sant'Egidio, yesterday marked the 17th month since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia expressing "gratitude for the truth she revealed". Her memory was marked at the annual Sant'Egidio conference on 'the soul of Mediterranean cities' that is meeting this week in Livorno. I had the privilege of speaking at [...]

MONEY MAGAZINE: Designing fairness

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2019-03-14T15:30:21+01:00Thu, 14th Mar '19, 15:30|

Here's my article in this month's Money Magazine: Business does not ask much from politics. That is a space where less is indeed more. Too much politics and it becomes harder to take decisions as goal posts shift and it becomes harder to predict what laws the business will need to be obeying a year [...]

WATCH: Repubblika’s 17 Black Seminar

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2019-03-14T10:33:58+01:00Thu, 14th Mar '19, 10:33|

Last week Repubblika hosted a seminar delivered by Godfrey Leone Ganado on the 17 Black scandal providing insight into money laundering and bribery schemes and answering questions from participants. You can watch the full seminar here. https://youtu.be/0pMBcIvD8RM

Pelin Ünker to speak at Saturday’s vigil

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2019-03-13T19:56:54+01:00Wed, 13th Mar '19, 19:53|

Statement by Repubblika: Repubblika announces that a protest vigil is called for Saturday 16 March at 18:30 to call for Truth and Justice seventeen months since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The vigil will be held in front of the Law Courts in Great Siege Square, Valletta. The vigil will be addressed by Turkish [...]

For crying out loud

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2019-03-13T19:25:44+01:00Wed, 13th Mar '19, 19:25|

In what universe is this acceptable? Does this sort of thing really help people choose who to vote for? In a way the candidate intends, I mean. With all that's wrong with Edward Scicluna -- and plenty is -- does this make anyone feel they can't wait for Kristy Debono to become Finance Minister?

‘The ultimate secular crime’

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2019-03-13T07:02:41+01:00Wed, 13th Mar '19, 07:02|

What Jason Azzopardi revealed in Parliament last night is a new level of nightmare. And yet, when our eyes flicker open in the cold light of day, we’ll brush off this experience and wash away the unease we feel about what has just happened. Every week a new low is reached for civil rights in [...]

UPDATED: 16th March: Vigil for Truth and Justice

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2019-03-17T10:04:04+01:00Tue, 12th Mar '19, 08:42|

Note that time has changed to 18:30. Join us Saturday in front of the Law Courts in Valletta to mark 17 months since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Someone has to stick around to remind this country it is living a lie and someone was killed for trying to change that. The vigil is [...]

Concealer

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2019-03-12T08:30:49+01:00Tue, 12th Mar '19, 08:30|

Someone yesterday wrote I was boring because I pointed out the imbecility of a tweet by the Leader of the Opposition that said his fight in court was aimed at “restoring the imbalance of power”. I may be going out on a limb here but I don’t think Adrian Delia was rethinking Thucydides when he [...]

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