Due process, they said

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2021-02-26T17:58:15+01:00Fri, 26th Feb '21, 17:58|

On TVM last Wednesday lawyers Manuel Mallia and Robert Musumeci had a lesson for me. If I’m serious about the ‘rule of law’, then certainly I can’t expect that people are punished according to my instincts or emotions. Everyone, whatever they’ve done, is entitled to due process and punishment is only handed down after judicial [...]

Extremist nanntek

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2021-02-26T16:09:43+01:00Fri, 26th Feb '21, 16:08|

Jason Micallef posted on Facebook an assault on our call for a protest on Monday. We called a protest, mind you. In a square. Which is pedestrianised. We didn’t call for disruption to traffic, or for throwing Molotov cocktails, or for the violent overthrow of government, or for whatever would fit your definition of extreme. [...]

It’s time for protest again

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2021-02-26T09:47:03+01:00Fri, 26th Feb '21, 09:47|

Repubblika, #occupyjustice and this website are calling the public to join in our protest on Monday 1 March at 5pm in front of Parliament House. We must renew our demands for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia, her family and the entire country. It makes us indeed very angry to see Prime Minister Robert Abela rush [...]

“Temporary resignation”

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2021-02-25T16:39:46+01:00Thu, 25th Feb '21, 16:39|

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 [...]

Rosianne resigned

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2021-02-25T15:22:32+01:00Thu, 25th Feb '21, 15:17|

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 [...]

TVM discussion on case against Daphne’s killers

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2021-02-25T14:49:24+01:00Thu, 25th Feb '21, 14:49|

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 [...]

Now this is new, migrants arriving ashore unnoticed.

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2021-02-25T14:31:46+01:00Thu, 25th Feb '21, 14:31|

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 [...]

Did you say case closed? I didn’t think so.

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2021-02-25T12:26:41+01:00Thu, 25th Feb '21, 12:26|

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 [...]

Sweet, sweet deal

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2021-02-24T11:02:58+01:00Wed, 24th Feb '21, 11:02|

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 [...]

Someone has finally accepted responsibility for killing Daphne Caruana Galizia. But we’re miles away from justice.

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2021-02-23T14:20:10+01:00Tue, 23rd Feb '21, 14:20|

  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 [...]

Unhappy brother in law

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2021-02-23T10:41:09+01:00Tue, 23rd Feb '21, 10:41|

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 [...]

Owen Bonnici complains

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2021-02-23T09:49:57+01:00Tue, 23rd Feb '21, 09:49|

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 [...]

“Malta is waiting for you”

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2021-02-22T11:23:58+01:00Mon, 22nd Feb '21, 11:23|

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 [...]

Refugium Peccatorum

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2021-02-22T10:23:22+01:00Mon, 22nd Feb '21, 10:23|

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 [...]

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