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Joseph Muscat had said in 2013 he'd make Malta the best in Europe. In 2017 he said he'd put Malta on the world stage. Oh but he has. The New York Times's editorial is on Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination. It quotes Joseph Muscat's promise to ensure her killers are brought to justice. But it is [...]

This screen-grab of a rant by Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, another one of many raising a glass to the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the one who held him to account for his disloyalty, corruption and pathological lying whilst Joseph Muscat rewarded him and confirmed him in public office he is completely unfit for. Jeffrey Pullicino [...]

An education Ministry civil servant wrote some encouraging words to parents of school children after the execution of Daphne Caruana Galizia. No harm in that and I would hate to diminish its effect if it does anyone any good. DQSE 02_2017 A Tragic Awakening But I know how these things work. Civil servants do not [...]

Click here for link. The front page of one Germany's top dailies.  

Deborah Schembri went on Labour’s TV station to say journalists who go “beyond a certain limit” must be punished. https://www.facebook.com/andre.camilleri/videos/10155985726153689/ Deborah Schembri, you do not understand freedom of speech. You do not understand democracy. The right of the freedom of expression is the right to cause offence, particularly to people of power, particularly to [...]

No one recognises better what has happened to our country than our Italian neighbours. I urge you to follow the commentaries and insights on the Italian media. Italian journalists are observing the signs of the times in this country and they understand Malta today better than we do. This chilling report by the Corriere della [...]

Read this damning editorial by The Guardian in the wake of the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Lawrence Gonzi said it in 2013: "There will be a time when we will be ashamed to be Maltese". Simon Busuttil had it in 2013: "They will drive us into a wall". Here we are. In what they [...]

As if we needed to be reminded here is the OSCE -- that exists to bring the Russians and the Americans to jointly monitor trouble spots around Europe like Belarus, the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Albania -- explaining explicitly what the rest of the world thinks of us right now. Do please read this [...]

Investigators are cautious and they will advise us to wait for conclusions. But we have seen that formula being used before. Why is Jimmy Magro not arraigned a year after the facts became known? The official story is the police is still investigating. Why has Edward Caruana not been booked for corruption and money laundering? [...]

Here is the filth, the rot, the venom at the very heart of our nation. Here is the hate that politicians and journalists have cultivated over months and years against the only one in this country who would stand up and speak out without seeking personal advantage and reward. This Ramon Mifsud is a recently [...]

While we wait for an investigation into yesterday’s assassination, there’s another inquiry which should be underway and it should not be conducted by the police. What did the police know about threats to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s life? What did they do about it? Someone from outside the police force must right away fall on the [...]

The first rule of a crime scene investigation is to preserve the evidence. But yesterday’s assassination is a microcosm of a bigger conspiracy. Daphne Caruana Galizia was the foremost investigator in the country. She uncovered malfeasance, graft, corruption and the organised crime that is around us. She published much but she published what could be [...]

Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera yesterday summoned to her court Peter Caruana Galizia and Matthew Caruana Galizia, husband and son of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Hours after the assassination of their wife and mother they were dragged to court. They were made to wait for hours in the court lobby, there to face two of the people [...]

Matthew Caruana Galizia inherits too soon the chalice of courage in the face of despair, of standing alone in front of the power of a state taken over by corruption and organised crime. Please read his Facebook post from this morning. His remarks this morning are not just grief, anger and despair. They are that. [...]

Watch this interview with renowned Italian journalist Roberto Saviano reacting to the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Roberto Saviano interviewed by La Repubblica Consider the intuitive reflections of one of the foremost experts on the Gomorrah about the natural relationship between corruption and organised crime and how we must start to understand this assassination in [...]

A full ten hours after the first targeted political assassination in Maltese political history and our law enforcement agencies and their political masters have not yet assumed any form of responsibility for their outrageous failure to provide security for the most obvious target for organised crime and institutionalised corruption. When Daphne Caruana Galizia’s blog would [...]

Daphne is never coming back. But we are left here. This country and this democracy is what we are left with. Living among us are people who think they can get away with murdering a journalist. They think so because of the things Daphne Caruana Galizia explained to us so clearly: the police will not [...]