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On Wednesday, the Economy Minister, Silvio Schembri, presented 2 resolutions to Parliament’s National Audit Committee concerning the Żonqor-SmartCity land deal with the American University of Malta, the AUM. Pertaining to Robert Abela’s ‘new vision’ for the ‘university’, this deal is described as ‘giving back the land’ to the people, the catch being that the land [...]
It won’t surprise anyone that unlike the general trend in Europe, most Maltese people worry more about their standard of living than the protection of European values. In people’s mind, too often, values have no value. The question was being asked as Europe was measuring the mood about the consequences of the war in Ukraine. [...]
Anya (not her real name) is 16 years old and lives just outside Moscow. I first met her about a year ago as her online English language teacher. She’s bright, articulate, devours the Russian classics and has also read Orwell’s 1984 which, for her, is ‘about the total control of people by the government’, Big [...]
Today is World Press Freedom Day. In a small city in the Friuli region of the north of Italy there's a secular Via Crucis of journalists remembered as martyrs for truth. An association of young writers and actors called Le Ombre (The Shadows) last Saturday marked World Press Freedom Day by leading a group of citizens [...]
Evarist Bartolo has started campaigning for the presidency to replace George Vella when that other Labour Party veteran retires for good. He hasn’t said so, not least because he only really needs to convince the prime minister and the leader of opposition of his suitability for the post. Whatever he plans to do in private [...]
This article is about Michael Falzon. That’s not the mild Labour minister from Sliema who likes fireworks, but the former PN minister exposed by journalists for dodging taxes and, probably, stashing bribes he collected when he was a government minister. He is lapping at the ankles of Mario Azzopardi the playwright like a man-whore, transparently [...]
Read prior episodes of this series by my wife, Clemence, who is on the Polish border with Ukraine here, here, and here. Very early this morning, Marcin and Wojciech came back from Lviv. They returned from a mission delivering essentials including urgently needed supplies for emergency surgeries. They describe the situation in Lviv right now [...]
My wife, Clemence, continues her diary of her trip to the Polish border with Ukraine. Her first entry is linked here. You only need a few hours driving from place to place here to realise just how real is real. Nothing one sees on TV or reads online can give the true feeling of what [...]
Russia has quit the Council of Europe. Against the background of the invasion of Ukraine this might feel like a formalistic diplomatic escalation. It is more than that. The move has deep symbolic significance and none of it is good. Add to that the fact that in addition to abandoning the Council of Europe, Russia [...]
Stephen Montefort stood at a Labour Party event to tell us we should not trust doctors, we should not trust science, we should not trust medicine, and we should not trust epidemiology. That’s because we have a better doctor in Robert Abela whom Stephen Montefort commends to us as a fount of infallible knowledge on [...]