Lovin Malta reports that a bunch of rabid racists has been given a permit to protest today in Valletta. Freedom of speech, and all that. They want to remind Parliament of their petition calling for people to be allowed to drown in our sea, because you know, they're black. I had written some time ago [...]
Rosianne Cutajar told the prime minister she was “offering her resignation pending the process” of the investigation into her allegedly unethical conduct by the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life. There is no way a minister can qualify their resignation as temporary. When one resigns, they have resigned. End of. It is then entirely in [...]
Her departure from government is long overdue. She is trying to present her resignation today as temporary . She says she'll clear her name and since Robert Abela has not gone as far as firing her, there might be something in that plan. She's already started her campaigning for her return to government. Here she [...]
L-Erbgħa fost il-Ġimgħa last night had a manel (that's a panel composed entirely of men who in this case met to perorate about a woman) discussing the current state of play in the criminal proceedings against the killers of Daphne Caruana Galizia. I was part of the manel, so I find myself having to apologise [...]
Five days ago, five men were apprehended by the police coming up the road from Wied iż-Żurrieq. They had entered the fishing harbour apparently on their own steam or whatever it was their boat was powered bybecause apparently, though they looked for it, the police and the army never found the vessel the migrants got [...]
The World is along established public radio journalism program broadcast out of studios in Boston providing world news stories for US audiences often missed by commercial radio. They interviewed me last night about events in Malta this week. Listen to it here.
The following is the text of a statement by the Media Group of MEPs in the European Parliament. There is a very long road ahead to achieve full justice in this case. All those who were involved in the assassination and the efforts to cover it up must face justice. But we must also see [...]
We’re getting a lot of sophistry masked as clarity. First, the prime minister said that convicted Daphne-killer Vince Muscat had not named a politician in the context of Daphne’s murder. That’s not what we heard from Newsbook so the question was put to Angelo Gafà. He was weirdly even more categorical. Whoever is pointed to by [...]
Repubblika activists went to Rosianne Cutajar's office in Valletta this morning to demand her resignation. Here's a video of the event. This guy Ġorġ Bnazzi was watching. And Rosianne Cutajar was watching as well. Good. Perhaps she got the hint.
Perhaps the strongest case for the argument that the institutions of this country do not work the way they should, was Robert Abela’s press conference yesterday. In this post, Alessandra Dee Crespo, brought up the sense of deja vu we felt watching it. She matched yesterday’s charade with the press conference Joseph Muscat had given [...]
This was broadcast last night on the world service. A link to the full program is here.
This was broadcast last night on the world service. A link to the full program is here.
Vincent Muscat, il-Koħħu, has admitted in open court that he was one of those who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia. He will now face punishment which has been mitigated on the back of his agreement to turn state evidence against other co-conspirators in this murder and perhaps in other cases he was involved in. This [...]
The prime minister’s wife, Lydia Abela, describes herself as a “Politician” on her Facebook page. In a democracy politicians get their jobs by election, appointment or employment, not by marriage. But there it is. She put this post up on Facebook saying that her political work (what work?) is based on a commitment to be [...]
The following is a letter I received from a lawyer acting for Owen Bonnici. The response from my lawyer follows beneath. Mr. Delia, WITHOUT PREJUDICE I am writing to you as instructed by my client the Hon. Minister Owen Bonnici in connection with your administration of your webpage manueldelia.com, in particular with reference to the comments [...]
Five years ago today, Daphne Caruana Galizia published a post about New Zealand lamb planned for slaughter in Easter. It was the dawn of the Panama Papers scandal. ? #OTD 2016, #DaphneCaruanaGalizia teased us with this cryptic post. We didn't know what it meant, but @KonradMizzi & @keithaschembri knew. 5 down the line, both crooks [...]
In opposition, Labour used to kick up much fuss about “Nationalists”, skużi, being recruited as ‘journalists’ at TVM. Having worked for Net in the past or somehow displayed anything but antipathy to the PN proved, as Labour saw it, the structural anti-opposition bias in the public broadcaster. I’m not going to suggest they were wrong. Only [...]
It will come as a little surprise to anyone who knows me that one of my favourite films is ‘A Few Good Men’. Set within the military justice system of the US Navy and US Marine Corps, it pits Tom Cruise’s Lieutenant (JG) Kaffee against the granite-faced Colonel Jessup, played by Jack Nicholson. It reaches [...]
Take a closer look at Owen Bonnici’s ridiculously headlined article in yesterday’s The Malta Independent accompanied by an equally ridiculous photograph. It should not surprise you, perhaps, but the content is equally ridiculous. I went back to the piece after a friend nudged me to, his sides still aching from the perverse trauma he felt [...]
A rescue ship operated by a Spanish NGO has not been able to reach Malta’s Rescue Command and Control Centre for several hours after saving migrants in Malta’s search and rescue area. Aita Mari rescued 120 migrants at sea this morning, including 8 women and a baby. The rescue boat is close to two other [...]