BBC Radio 4 spoke this morning to Jonathan Benton who advised the British Prime Minister on corruption and headed the International Corruption Unit of the National Crime Agency about what he thought of Malta. In summary he says that "Malta has a serious problem of money laundering. You cannot have this scale of money laundering [...]

Watching the sad spectacle of the Police Commissioner give a press conference seventy-two hours after the most heinous crime and the first ever successful political assassination in Maltese history brought on me the hysterical tearful laughter that only tragically depressive situations can cause. It looked like something from an Ed Wood film of a bungling [...]

I have been speaking to many international journalists visiting Malta over the past 3 days. I have spoken to journalists from The Economist, Reuters, Sky, Liberation and other publications and news media who came here to report on the aftermath of the assassination of one they consider their own. Many of them flew in with [...]

A political officer in the office of Malta prime minister wrote this a few weeks before Daphne Caruana Galizia was blown up: "The people have said NO to hate blogging and to those so-called journalists dictated to by the Nationalist agenda of hate. We have seen the weakness of spineless journalists happy to ride the [...]

Read this interview in today's The Guardian. I can say no more.

Joseph Muscat is indulging in his classic newspeak. He is spinning this story like the rapist who pleads to the judge "but her skirt was very short". He told Christiane Amanpour on CNN, Daphne Caruana Galizia was "a harsh critic of (his)". He then repeated that line in Parliament. He is seeking absolution in the [...]

This exchange on Facebook between the so called honourable Silvio Schembri and Matthew Caruana Galizia happened on the eve of the last election. Matthew Caruana Galizia understood well what Silvio Schembri meant by "getting rid" of him. "How do you plan to do it," Matthew Caruana Galizia asked Silvio Schembri. "By shooting me?" Transcript of [...]

Here is the link to the article The Economist will be running on tomorrow's print edition following the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. During his time here I met the author.

by Richard Theuma Whenever I open my web browser, the first thing I normally do is to guide the cursor towards the address bar and type in 'Running Commentary.' In spite of myself, I still do this even when I'm conscious that I'm doing it. It's the first stage of grief: denial. I can't say [...]

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Best comment so far today: The FBI are finally in Malta - do you think they will find the police commissioner?

Here is Matthew Caruana Galizia on Facebook this morning. He is right. Give back our country.  

A day or two after the election result from last June I wrote an essay to try to make sense of an election result I could not understand. Daphne Caruana Galizia read it and linked it on her website. She said it was the analysis she intended to write but had not found the time [...]

by Lisa Darmanin Demajo As the horrific events of last Monday sink in, I am still suspended somewhere between disbelief and grief. Grieving for the mother, the wife, the sister, the daughter who was loved and lost. Brutally murdered and left to burn in front of her son. My heart breaks for them. Disbelief, that [...]

The foremost investigators in Italian journalism are in Malta or on their way. For them the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, so visually and morally reminiscent of the Strage di Capaci, is a story with layers and ramifications they have long suspected but feel they must now come here to prove. La Repubblica is reporting [...]

I struggle to think of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando writing something poignant but from his small, diseased, petty and evil mind comes an unintended but no less significantly strong historical observation. He posted this in his celebration of Adrian Delia’s election to the leadership of the PN. That’s how small-minded he is. Looking at those acronyms [...]

Here's Evarist Bartolo on Facebook today: "Il-jum it-tajjeb. Wara l-qtil brutali ta' Daphne Caruana Galizia nhar it-Tnejn qed iqumu hafna mistoqsijiet serji u nkwetanti. Min ried jaghlqilha halqha f'daqqa wahda? Ghal tant snin ikkritikat bl-ahrax nies li qatt ma ghamlulha xejn. Xi tfacca gdid fl-ahhar xhur? Wahda mill-konsegwenzi ta' dan il-qtil kien it-tharbit tal-progress socjali [...]

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