Guest post by Anna Briffa in the form of a letter to Edward Scicluna. Dear Professor Scicluna, Very Few Crumbs I’m so glad I don’t even have to feign gratitude for the the measly €45 to €60 cheque that you so condescendingly distributed among workers. I didn’t get one. Not because I am a pensioner. [...]
There’s an ongoing scandal in the Sicilian press that should be of interest to us. The Catania court has found that the media company that owns newspapers La Sicilia and La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and TV stations Antenna Sicilia and Telecolor served the interests over many years of organised crime by ensuring that news on [...]
This is not about a memorial to Daphne Caruana Galizia, Mr Martin Scicluna. She'd have hated the thought. This is about continuing the protest demanding justice in the face of government suppression. It's not even about where the protest congregates and what form it takes. It's about a government that thinks they can, just because [...]
I'm sorry. I had not see this before. Thank you for a more expert property reviewer to point this out. I wouldn't want to consider a 27th floor apartment worth a measly €7 million, when I could touch the sky with €10 million. I am no class-envy, workers of all the world unite, working class [...]
The reports of Peter Grech testifying in Adrian Delia’s case against him for not giving him a full copy of the Egrant inquiry are like a dive in a boiling cauldron yet uncooled with a baboon’s blood. I know that with time I have grown impatient with Peter Grech’s obsequious squishiness. But today has been [...]
One apartment in the newly permitted dB tower in St George’s Bay is being advertised for sale for €7.7 million euro. That’s about what most people would earn in around 300 years. Presumably this will be the most luxurious apartment in the whole block. The block will have 99 apartments. If another one like this [...]
This is a two-part series by guest author John Vassallo. The first part was published yesterday. The Enemy Within (2): Traitors in our midst Seneca, the Roman Stoic philosopher and adviser to Emperor Nero was the word of truth, integrity and reason in the court of absolute power of an irrational Emperor. He advised against [...]
The oldest rhetorical secret weapon for those who run out of argument is trivialisation. Troll central dispatched the usual suspects to react to the constitutional application I filed yesterday saying the removal of the protest in Great Siege Square by state agency is a breach of the freedom of speech. The old canard that “a [...]
Finnish National Broadcaster YLE has identified a Maltese citizen born in Russia as the frontman for a company suspected of being involved in a massive money laundering operation worth close to 10 million euro in real estate transactions. The unnamed Maltese citizen, born in Russia in 1964, was made chairman of a Finnish real estate [...]
Charles Mercieca published a statistical review of articles appearing over the summer on four online media outlets and this website. It’s nice that he included this site with the big boys: Times of Malta, Malta Today, Newsbook and Lovin Malta. This website is a one man show so obviously my 300 English language articles on [...]
This is a two-part series by guest author John Vassallo. The second part will be published tomorrow. The Enemy Within (1): Traitors in our midst The recent law suits in the US against advisers, employees and supporters of Donald Trump give a lot of food for thought. This week’s book launch of “FEAR Trump in [...]
This is the court application I filed today. The application was signed by lawyers, Karol Aquilina, Jason Azzopardi, Eve Borg Costanzi, Paul Borg Olivier and Therese Comodini Cachia.
I published this post on November 25th last year. It might be useful to keep this in mind. The government wants you to think the smuggler did it.
This is the protest in front of the court of justice as it flickered last night. The dangerous, polluting, offensive distracting protest was 'cleaned up' during the night. This is what Therese Comodini Cachia wrote on the subject in this morning's Times of Malta: "Is it so terrifying to our government, that a community [...]
This piece is not about Adrian Delia’s politics or about his charismatic nature. Nor is it about the opinions of his wife. It is not about their public behaviour. And it is not a criticism of their choices. This piece is about a subject I think generally speaking should not concern journalists and should not [...]
The prime minister ruling out an independent inquiry into what the state could have done to prevent the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia and to determine whether there is any responsibility by state actors in the occurrence is an abhorrent decision. It belies his claim that he would leave ‘no stone unturned’ to find out [...]
This is the concluding analysis in Godfrey Leone Ganado’s 10-part review of the findings of the Egrant inquiry: Background An analysis of 49 pages of the conclusions of the magisterial inquiry report containing around 1500 pages, which was published by the Attorney General, and a copy of which, he gave the Prime Minister probably not [...]
This week I am filing a constitutional case against the government for what I argue is the breach of my fundamental right to free expression. The matter was covered this morning in The Sunday Times. Of course this is not about me, or just about me. Over 11 months thousands of people stepped up to [...]
Malta Today’s story about a band club in Marsa banning black people is hard reading. The committee denies the policy exists though the journalist, Karl Azzopardi, does his own checking and confirms with the barman racial profiling of visitors is indeed the order of the day. I don’t think this surprises anyone. Surely people realise [...]
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom continues to closely monitor developments, such as they are, here in Malta since Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed almost a year ago. Iris Rohmann has been coming to Malta regularly and she says "it feels like watching a bad play". I would add to that, watching a [...]