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 [...]

Wrong Delia, mate

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2018-10-09T18:52:42+02:00Tue, 9th Oct '18, 17:48|

Pierre Portelli was not having a great day today. It’s not something I brought about. Nickie Vella De Fremeaux hit out at Pierre Portelli without naming him at first over an issue which emerges from a conflict of interest he is in, combining his work at the PN with his private interests. In a message [...]

GUEST POST: Keep calm and call Edward

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2018-10-09T16:44:37+02:00Tue, 9th Oct '18, 16:44|

By Charmaine Spiteri: Iced Buns It has been reported in the media that former Parliamentary Secretary Deborah Schembri, who failed to get elected in the last election earns about €160,000 a year through public contracts awarded to her by direct orders. In the contract with Identity Malta, she is required to go through 50 files [...]

#occupyjustice statement: Chris Cardona must go now

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2018-10-09T14:29:25+02:00Tue, 9th Oct '18, 14:29|

Statement by #occupyjustice outside the Valletta Police Station today. Six months ago, on 19th April, #occupyjustice activists visited the Valletta Police Station to pass to the police information they appeared not to have seen, though it was published on the world’s media: that Minister Chris Cardona knew alleged assassin Alfred Degiorgio and met him before Degiorgio [...]

UPDATED: Politics as soap opera

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2018-10-09T14:17:37+02:00Tue, 9th Oct '18, 12:45|

Updated: Adds statement by Pierre Portelli On the morning after Chris Cardona was accused by a leading Italian daily of lying about how well he knew an assassin accused of killing a journalist, the party apparatchiks at the PN are busy managing a storm over who has the rights over a TV fiction. This is [...]

Stefan Grech appealing Belgian court conviction

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2018-10-09T10:59:55+02:00Tue, 9th Oct '18, 10:59|

Stefan Grech who was convicted of anti-semitism and physical assault has said he intends to appeal the sentence. He continues to protest his innocence. In a statement sent to this website, Mr Grech denied being an anti-Semite. "I categorically deny having any racist or anti-semitic inclinations whatsoever. There is absolutely no history or instances linking [...]

John Sweeney’s Freedom Lecture moved to bigger venue

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2018-10-09T08:08:50+02:00Tue, 9th Oct '18, 08:08|

The BBC's John Sweeney will be delivering a Freedom Lecture in honour of Daphne Caruana Galizia on Monday 15th October. The event has been oversubscribed and booking is now closed. The event is also being moved to a larger venue to accommodate a larger audience. It will now be held at the Catholic Institute in [...]

La Repubblica: Chris Cardona lied about not knowing Alfred Degiorgio. Call logs hidden from inquiring magistrate.

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2018-10-08T18:46:00+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 18:46|

La Repubblica reports today that two witnesses have told Magistrate Neville Camilleri that on 29 June 2017, four months before the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Minister Chris Cardona and lead assassin Alfred Degiorgio accused of killing Daphne Caruana Galizia, met at a bachelor’s party in a villa in Fawwara. This contradicts public statements made [...]

Free speech organisations tell UN free expression in Malta has “deteriorated significantly”

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2018-10-08T18:04:25+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 18:04|

PEN International, Article 19, Reporters without Borders, the International Press Institute and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom have updated their report to the United Nations on free speech in Malta ahead of a UN review due in November. "Since 2013, the climate for freedom of expression has deteriorated significantly in Malta, in [...]

Treason

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2018-10-08T17:12:54+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 16:46|

For the benefit of readers of this blog who do not live here or speak the language, I am translating here a report on the Labour Party’s “news” website published earlier today.  A month-long campaign against Malta takes off “It conditions the way you work. The way you think about your own country.” October will [...]

Posters in the street

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2018-10-08T13:34:07+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 13:29|

Look at these posters hung on the streets of Perugia. Owen Bonnici is not sending Ministry officials to remove them at night. The same way protest banners are removed here within hours of being nicely tied with plastic cables ties to railings. The same way paid for posters, on billboards that have advertised beer and [...]

Stefan Grech guilty of anti-semitism and physical assault.

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2018-10-08T11:51:49+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 11:44|

A Belgian Court has sentenced Stefan Grech for incitement to hatred and anti-Semitic assault. The defendant, who has been sentenced to pay 500 euros of non-pecuniary damage to the victim and one symbolic euro to anti-racism organisation Unia, will have to follow training in tolerance and the fight against anti-Semitism, among others. Stefan Grech had tried [...]

International and Malta NGOs back call for independent inquiry into assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia

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2018-10-08T11:26:07+02:00Mon, 8th Oct '18, 11:26|

Twenty-two international NGOs and Malta’s human rights organisations Aditus, Integra Foundation and the Platform of Human Rights Organisations in Malta, backed the call for a public inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The call was made in a letter delivered today to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. The organisations represent between them thousands of [...]

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