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Our governors do not merely delight in the assurance that their grip on power is being extended for another 5-year term. They somehow feel the need to troll their opponents, a real-word reflection of the “erbgħin elf” followed by a row of lemons that their minions post on Facebook as an irrelevant close to every [...]
Does it make a difference that we find out that when Adrian Delia as Leader of Opposition ignored the fact Yorgen Fenech owned 17 Black (when the big news was that Yorgen Fenech owned 17 Black) Yorgen Fenech thanked him for his spot of blindness? Not really. It doesn’t make it any better that Yorgen [...]
Football clubs are not allowed to spend beyond their means. NGOs are required to share with the regulator information on everything they earn and everything they spend. Anyone in the employment of someone else has their taxes deducted before they even collect their salaries. These rules are set for all of us by parliament. Members [...]
Updated at 13:22 The FIAU handed down to Pilatus Bank plc a record fine which is just shy of €5 million because of gross and systemic failure of preventing the bank from being used as a laundry for dirty money and or a conduit for funding terrorism. Some observations that I think are worth making. [...]
The below podcast is an adaptation of a speech I delivered this morning at the invitation of KSU at the launch of their Erasmus+ project with the title 'Democracy Derailed?' If you prefer, scroll down to read the text of the speech instead. https://soundcloud.com/emanuel-delia-188931879/democracy-derailed/s-sqYMatneSqK Chair, Mr President, Thank you for inviting me to share some [...]
The campaign to elbow Repubblika out of existence continues apace. Consider this article on the Labour Party’s English-language website. The contradictions are as familiar as they are obvious. Repubblika, the article posits, represents a hostile take-over of the non-governmental sector by pretend-independents who are really agents of the Nationalist Party. Look at them, the article [...]
There’s a lot of fascinating detail in the inquiry report beneath the earth-shattering headlines about the State’s responsibility in the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Here’s an interesting point. The inquiry board was faced by refusals from Joseph Muscat and other former and present ministers in his governments refusing to answer questions or provide information [...]
The first thing Eddie Fenech Adami did after checking in into the Auberge de Castille on 10 May 1987 was book himself flights to Europe’s capitals. The great work of emerging from the iron curtain days of Dom Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici had begun. And a chunk of that work would be showing chanceries [...]
We didn’t need a report from the European Commission to tell us the grotesque delays in court proceedings in this country are a threat to the rule of law. Justice delayed is justice denied is here a cliché. Consider the case of the “oil scandal”. On the eve of the 2013 elections, Malta Today exposed [...]
At 6 pm this evening, Repubblika’s President Robert Aquilina will be speaking to journalists. He’ll be sending a warning to Parliamentarians in the building behind him that quite enough time has passed for the country to act on the apparently untouchable among them who get away with all sorts of crime without any apparent consequence. [...]