THE SUNDAY TIMES: Bearing witness
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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 [...]
Visual poetry
Posted on Facebook by Lizzie Eldridge earlier today.
If you’re looking for a place in Brussels
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?
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
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
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
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 [...]
A crook representing a government of crooks at a crooked university
Watch this Times of Malta video of their reporter Ivan Camilleri reminding Joseph Muscat why our Prime Minister avoids the press like the plague. Because at least some journalists are not numbed and desensitised by the perpetual state of heightened dismay we have all been under for over five years now. In October 2017 the [...]
Appeals Court recognises journalists’ obligation to report in the public interest
The Court of Appeal has quashed two decisions by a lower court that had found Caroline Muscat liable to pay damages of €10,000 for a series of articles she wrote when she was working at Times of Malta on Patrick Dalli, husband of Minister Helena Dalli. The stories were published in 2014 and reported on [...]