And they call me a traitor

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2018-10-14T06:37:18+02:00Sun, 14th Oct '18, 06:37|

Henley & Partners is now branding Maltese citizenship as a status symbol to be ticked off by the stupidly rich who “have a yacht and two aeroplanes”. Do you know many people who have a yacht and two aeroplanes? Although to be fair the real question ought to be: do you want to know anyone [...]

John Sweeney on RTK

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2018-10-13T14:53:06+02:00Sat, 13th Oct '18, 14:53|

Fr Joe Borg interviewed John Sweeney this morning ahead of the BBC journalist's Freedom Lecture on Monday. He was told by a listener that he's being "fed wrong information". And John Sweeney patiently explained the difference between impartiality, which is a professional obligation and being able to tell right from wrong. Listen to the interview [...]

Rai Uno: Daphne La Patriota

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2018-10-13T11:26:37+02:00Sat, 13th Oct '18, 11:26|

This was broadcast yesterday on Rai Uno's weekly news in-depth magazine TV7. The feature is by Maria Grazia Mazzola. https://www.facebook.com/inviataspecialeRai/videos/2058696170840837/

Carlo Bonini: L’isola assassina

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2018-10-13T11:07:26+02:00Sat, 13th Oct '18, 11:07|

When in Rome yesterday I met again La Repubblica's Carlo Bonini, part of the Daphne Project and author of the 'Daphne' movie shown in an event organised by this website a few months ago. Through Feltrinelli he has just published his book on the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia that tells the story on what [...]

Stand Up for Truth and Justice

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2018-10-13T07:59:11+02:00Sat, 13th Oct '18, 07:59|

On behalf of my colleagues organising the Truth and Justice campaign, I would like to thank Steve Hili for his show last Sunday. And I would like to thank LovinMalta for feature the event on their site. Here are Tim Diacono's notes from the evening. Satire is a bit of a lost trade here in [...]

Spin can sometimes be insufferable.

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2018-10-13T07:35:53+02:00Sat, 13th Oct '18, 07:09|

Consider this heading in a The Malta Independent report from a couple of days ago: “Temporary ITS Luqa Campus inaugurated”. “Temporary” suggests the place is a stop-gap solution, something on the way to a more permanent solution. An urgent fix that was needed until something better props up. And that would be an accurate impression. [...]

Where was Chris Cardona?

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2018-10-13T08:39:15+02:00Sat, 13th Oct '18, 06:32|

When Keith Arnaud, the police inspector in the investigation on who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, was interrogating Alfred Degiorgio he took il-Fulu through the devastating evidence they had to prove he killed the journalist. Keith Arnaud showed Alfred Degiorgio the police had all the answers. Records of SIM card purchases, the movements of phones, records [...]

PD call on people to join March for Truth and Justice

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2018-10-13T06:02:06+02:00Sat, 13th Oct '18, 06:02|

Partit Demokratiku's statement: PD in full support of Sunday’s demonstration: Manifestazzjoni Ġustizzja u Verità Partit Demokratiku is the only party represented in parliament which has unfailingly supported civil society in its incessant demands for an end to corruption and impunity, for good governance and truth and justice. Why? Because Partit Demokratiku is a democratic and [...]

Berlin and Brussels to host vigils for Daphne on the 16th

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2018-10-13T05:45:23+02:00Sat, 13th Oct '18, 05:45|

On Tuesday, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and the German journalist union Deutscher Journalisten-Verband (DJV) are hosting a vigil outside the Maltese Embassy in Berlin to commemorate Daphne Caruana Galizia, and to make it clear that also a year later, the pressure on the Maltese government to investigate this murder thoroughly will [...]

Guest Post: Simon Busuttil and the Egrant inquiry

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2018-10-11T19:06:15+02:00Thu, 11th Oct '18, 19:06|

Sent in by someone known to me: It is obvious why government members went all out to drown down Simon Busuttil’s telling comments on the Egrant inquiry at Parliament’s sitting on 10 October. He was spot on in saying that the Magistrate’s conclusions in his report did not categorically rule out that Egrant’s owner could [...]

La Repubblica: How Malta’s government absolves itself of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s killing

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2018-10-11T12:54:42+02:00Thu, 11th Oct '18, 12:39|

This is my translation of an article carried yesterday by La Repubblica. If you can, read the original here. “State of Denial”: an English expression that accurately describes the effect of the new revelations published Tuesday by La Repubblica and the Daphne Project coordinated by Forbidden Stories, throwing light once more on the undiscovered darkness [...]

Projectile pea soup

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2018-10-11T11:40:36+02:00Thu, 11th Oct '18, 11:40|

There are bigger fish to fry, but I can’t let this fish slip. I wasn’t in the courtroom when Magistrate Joe Mifsud is reported to have appointed an exorcist in some mumbo-jumbo case he was presiding. The report in Times of Malta refers to this exorcism business in its heading but says very little about [...]

Quick Owen Bonnici, call your colleague in Bulgaria

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2018-10-11T11:18:15+02:00Thu, 11th Oct '18, 11:06|

Owen Bonnici needs to get on the phone double quick with the head street sweeper of Ruse in Bulgaria. We can't have flowers and candles and a picture of a journalist left on a public memorial now, can we? It would be a travesty. The photo was on today's The Malta Independent.

They can’t be left alone

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2018-10-11T11:04:00+02:00Thu, 11th Oct '18, 11:02|

Civil society activists rightly point out that they are distinct from politicians even though they may find themselves agreeing with some of them. The vocation of the two is different. Civil society is not burdened by the needs of strategy, partisan tactics, collegial solidarity and the plague of consistency. They mean what they say when [...]

The Malta segment on Simon Reeve’s BBC show

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2018-10-10T23:17:16+02:00Wed, 10th Oct '18, 23:17|

I'm taking a bit of a risk here as obviously this show is the property of the BBC and I'm uploading an extract here without their express permission. If this post vanishes at some point you know why. This extract is the Malta segment which was the very first segment of the very first episode [...]

I fear for Simon Busuttil’s safety

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2018-10-10T22:48:38+02:00Wed, 10th Oct '18, 22:48|

I’ve thought about what I’m about to say a lot over the last year and I’ve stopped myself saying it aloud. But I saw the prime minister on TV yesterday in Parliament and I heard from people who were there what the scene in the chamber after the cameras were switched off was like. And [...]

Journalism in Muscat-speak

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2018-10-10T21:50:38+02:00Wed, 10th Oct '18, 21:50|

Sarah Puntan Galea, another footsoldier in Joseph Muscat's regiment of truth bashers, wanted to remind the BBC's Simon Reeve how journalism should be done. She thinks the world is like Malta where Labour gets to tell everyone what to think, no matter how absurd. The fact that the BBC interviewed me does not give anyone [...]

At 6.30 pm turn on Parliament TV

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2018-10-10T18:10:09+02:00Wed, 10th Oct '18, 17:17|

After that fascist attack on basic freedoms perpetrated in full view of the country by a prime minister who threatened an Opposition MP with effective exile from the country, Simon Busuttil is tonight standing in Parliament to reply. Until now Simon Busuttil said he would wait for the Egrant inquiry to be published before reacting [...]

Exiles

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2018-10-10T15:55:43+02:00Wed, 10th Oct '18, 15:55|

He tried to fudge it later but he had said it. Joseph Muscat told Simon Busuttil he should not ever be allowed in Malta. It was not a slip of an angry moment. It is an idea the prime minister wants to push right into the mainstream. I meet people who have the culture, the [...]

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