If you’re looking for a place in Brussels

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2019-03-11T14:48:36+01:00Mon, 11th Mar '19, 14:48|

It’s not beneath the dignity of this website to provide a little free advertising as long as it amounts to public service of course. Marlene Mizzi is looking to rent out her Brussels apartment now her time as MEP is drawing to a close. She gave first dibs to other incumbent MEPs presumably in case [...]

Stick to poetry maybe?

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2019-03-11T12:08:52+01:00Mon, 11th Mar '19, 12:08|

Adrian Delia tweeted this morning after going to court. He went to fight one of his Monday morning battles because, he says, "we must restore the imbalance of power". What's wrong with the imbalance we have now? You have one job.

“Constitution is the people’s” — Sunday Times editorial

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2019-03-10T15:47:47+01:00Sun, 10th Mar '19, 15:47|

Please do read The Sunday Times's editorial of today about the secrecy with which Constitutional reforms are being debated behind closed doors by a committee made of representatives of the PN and the PL. The heading says it all. The Editor is rightly concerned that so far, apart from political parties, only Repubblika has shown [...]

Let’s go back to Damascus

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2019-03-10T15:34:52+01:00Sun, 10th Mar '19, 15:34|

He’s gone full circle now. He started out by arguing the PN was obsessive about corruption because Daphne Caruana Galizia had taken possession of the party. Under her spell and the feeble leadership of Simon Busuttil, the PN had lost touch with ‘the bread and butter issues’. The party had become too negative. It had [...]

He wants term limits now

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2019-03-09T20:46:52+01:00Sat, 9th Mar '19, 13:12|

So Joseph Muscat wants us to believe he has grown tired of politicians who want to stick to their seats. He’s suggested a use by date for Parliamentarians: out after 20 years. And if an MP makes it to Prime Minister they need to be knocked out within 10. As always with Joseph Muscat it [...]

Repubblika files court application demanding an inquiry into Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri

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2019-03-08T15:46:14+01:00Fri, 8th Mar '19, 15:46|

This is a video statement released today by Repubblika after representatives of the organisation filed a court application today demanding an inquiry into Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri, those who bribed them and those who helped them getting bribed. The statement is in Maltese. Scroll down for an English translation and for a copy of [...]

PEC on Women’s Day: “regret that Malta has not yet accepted a public inquiry on the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia”

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2019-03-08T14:45:06+01:00Fri, 8th Mar '19, 14:45|

On its Women's Day statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Press Emblem Campaign has expressed "regret that more than 16 months after the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta in October 2017, the Maltese authorities have not yet accepted a public inquiry". The PEC urged the Maltese authorities "to find the [...]

Here’s a cover for the Joseph Muscat sticker album

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2019-03-08T07:33:02+01:00Fri, 8th Mar '19, 07:33|

Your sense of judgement, which continues to chain you to a ground where very few remain, would tell you this is a spoof by someone a tad too keen like those guys who tattoo a cartoon stickman to their shoulderblade and label it Joseph Muscat. But then you remember that a concert of Joseph Muscat's favourite [...]

Michael Falzon’s big picture

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2019-03-07T09:56:21+01:00Thu, 7th Mar '19, 09:56|

There probably isn’t a more callously myopic and less reassuring response than “look at the big picture”. But that’s what Minister Michael Falzon wants us to do while we register the fact that more people are living in deprivation now than last year. He was speaking to Times of Malta commenting in their print report [...]

The President should steer clear of controversies: especially changes to the Constitution

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2019-03-06T13:54:12+01:00Wed, 6th Mar '19, 13:47|

The following is a statement issued today by Repubblika: Hours before the nomination of George Vella as President of Malta, we heard that his predecessor, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, suspended the series of meetings she had been chairing of a committee made up of representatives nominated by Joseph Muscat and Adrian Delia to drive changes [...]

‘Journalistic’ concern with offensive flowers

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2019-03-06T14:03:42+01:00Wed, 6th Mar '19, 11:45|

News media from around the world reported with dismay, right up to this week, the government's evil campaign of daily removal of flowers, candles and protest messages left at the Great Siege memorial opposite the law courts. Not to be outdone, the world-respected, brave, intrepid, truth-seeking, fair-minded journalists at Super One are also covering this [...]

Ali Sadr instructed staff to hide his Iranian nationality as he prepared to set up Pilatus Bank

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2019-03-06T11:38:03+01:00Wed, 6th Mar '19, 11:38|

Ali Sadr Hasheminejad instructed staff to make sure his Iranian nationality and any other links to Iran were carefully concealed as he was setting up Pilatus Bank in Malta. This emerges from emails sent by Ali Sadr from his personal Gmail account that United States investigators recovered as part of their investigations in their case [...]

Controlling the future

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2019-03-04T17:12:37+01:00Mon, 4th Mar '19, 17:12|

I was reminded recently of a phrase Simon Busuttil had used once — ‘Labour-proof’ — that Labour had taken out of context and ran with as some form of sectarian divisive dogma. Of course, the intention of that phrase was to commit to what many now so often complain about when they refuse to attribute [...]

Don’t bother reading what is on the wall

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2019-03-04T14:31:49+01:00Mon, 4th Mar '19, 14:27|

The monthly opinion polls published by Malta Today, corroborated yesterday by data published by it-Torċa, continue to confirm the consistent trend in place for over a year of a 70,000 vote gap between the PL and the PN. Although in this last survey the PN gained a little bit of ground, its leader Adrian Delia [...]

RTV Slovenia: Malta, The dark face of economic growth

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2019-03-04T12:06:28+01:00Mon, 4th Mar '19, 12:06|

Slovenian National TV ran this in-depth feature by senior report Janko Petrovec on Malta over the weekend. Click here to link to the page showing the film.  The interviews in the feature are in English. An English translation of the script follows. Slovenian journalist Janko Petrovec at the Great Siege memorial in Valletta 280219 [...]

‘Classroom Containers’ supplied by sister company of Construct Furniture while directors undergo proceedings for manslaughter of 17-year-old

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2019-03-04T13:23:59+01:00Mon, 4th Mar '19, 11:46|

The company supplying the notorious classroom containers is owned by the family, members of which are undergoing proceedings for the involuntary homicide of a 17-year-old employee. The containers were supplied by a company co-owned by the owners of Construct Furniture where 17-year-old Matthew Bartolo was killed in 2015. At the inquiry after that death, the [...]

The blue cave of Mosta

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2019-03-09T12:22:38+01:00Mon, 4th Mar '19, 09:04|

An article appearing this weekend on Italian specialist football magazine calciomercato.com tells the story of Max Leghissa, Italian national and “sports director” at Mosta FC who has managed the importation of a long series of international players at the Premier League side. Max Leghissa Max Leghissa introduces himself as an experienced football manager [...]

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