If you've missed this piece on Il Sole 24 Ore give it some of your time. It follows the trail of heaps of Azerbaijan money that may or may not be finding its way through laundering European banks into the pockets of decision makers that Azerbaijan needs to grow its gas business. The story speaks of [...]

We have entered a new phase in political reality. The ranking order of parties remains unchanged and the majority support for the Labour Party remains unassailable. But the major change is that as time goes by party leaders lose more control over their fate and their improvisations and errors cost them more and more. Hardly [...]

I was abroad today and missed a sitting of the case I filed against Owen Bonnici and his underlings in the Constitutional Court. Before today I filed a sworn statement giving a detailed account of the censorship of the protest in Great Siege Square and the reasons why I opened the case. It’s basically a [...]

The Auditor General was right to look into whether Brian Tonna was the auditor for the company owned by the Tumas, the Gasan and the Apap Bologna groups at the same time as he awarded the consortium they belonged to the power station contract. GEM (the company held by the Fenechs, Gasans and Apap Bolognas) [...]

Fourth and final post in Godfrey Leone Ganado's series on the background to the 17 Black scandal. Shareholders I will start this article, with a follow up of what the PN MP Dr Karol Aquilina stated in Parliament this week, when speaking about the shareholders of Gem Holdings, the local shareholder, one of the three [...]

I was very fortunate last night to have been invited by the Committee to Protect Journalists to speak to their London Leadership Council, a group of leading supporters of the CPJ based in this town including senior journalists working for global networks like CNN, ABC, AP, BBC and others. I was one of two speakers, [...]

This was seen over Regional Road in Msida this morning. #Reżistenza issued this statement a few minutes ago: We expect arrests, interrogations and prosecution The shocking revelations made by Reuters and the Times of Malta on the 9th November 2018 & the NAO report published yesterday corroborate what had been exposed by assassinated journalist Daphne [...]

  The interview was published this morning by La Repubblica. It is part of Saviano's TV show being shown tonight. The link to the interview (in Italian) is here. I will just translate a line Paul Caruana Galizia says that struck me because of many conversations I have had the last few days with people [...]

I met Jane Borg (not her real name) at a cafe’ not far from her old St Julians restaurant. She told me her next appointment was with her landlord. She decided to return the keys to her restaurant to him with all the equipment and the remainder of her stock inside. Jane is 35. She [...]

The Auditor General published today a 600-page report into the power station contract. He finds heaps of shortcomings in the process. They’re all major indicators of corruption. One of the most significant findings is that Enemalta decided to procure the power-station contract the way it did within a few days of Labour coming to power [...]

The Media Pluralism Monitor report published by the EU-funded Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom will be largely dismissed as conditioned by the immediate aftermath of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s killing. The data for the report was gathered this time last year when already the government had driven hard the notion that that assassination was [...]

If you're ever in Valletta you'll see that the protest demanding justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia and for the stories she was killed for working for continues. These photos were taken in the last few minutes. On Friday the case against the government in the constitutional court demanding the protest is allowed continues to be [...]

There was a lot of debate about editorial choices when I published the story about the Leader of the Opposition’s wife seeking a separation from him. It was a debatable choice. So the debate is understandable. These couple of days there has been some discussion about other editorial decisions some have taken. There was the [...]

It’s ok for Kurt Farrugia to have a copy of the Egrant report. He told everyone in court today, answering questions from the PN’s Vince Galea, that he has a copy in his office. But don’t worry he keeps it locked. And he promises he doesn’t field questions from Keith Schembri — his boss — [...]

I lost my libel virginity today. The first of a number of court cases I’m involved in as a result of this blog has been decided. Jean Claude Micallef sued me. He thought that by calling him a hypocrite I damaged his reputation. As the old maxim goes: it’s not slander if it’s true. The [...]

Guest Post: Behind the facade of our government are a bunch of corporate controlled Mafiosi running the country. These Mafiosi and their minions, ostensibly elected from the people, by the people, for the people are the real enemies. The enemy within. This government is corrupt. It is profit and self-interest driven and not driven to [...]

Let’s just for a minute forget Neville Gafa’ was accused by multiple witnesses of soliciting bribes in exchange for medical visas to Libyans. Let’s forget for a minute the prosecution of his alleged crimes hinges on witnesses that are not allowed into Malta. Let’s forget for a minute that the police have once again been [...]

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "There are family dynasties that wield enormous power in this country, not quantified by votes or popular support and not tempered by the prospect of replacement by rivals in an electoral cycle. Unlike Nationalists or Labourites, corrupt politicians and honest ones, popular or cerebral, these oligarchs are [...]

There is something only slightly more horrible than the prospect of the Labour Party unilaterally deciding what our new constitution should look like. And that is the prospect of the constitution being drawn up in some smoke-filled room between the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party across a table chaired by a President bred out [...]

This Guest Post is in response to an earlier Guest Post that looked forward to a PN without Adrian Delia. This response takes the opposite view. It is sent in by someone who calls himself Ouaga. I have just read the guest post by ‘Lake’ and the article brings back nostalgia as well as examines [...]