Blogs
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TREBLE HEADER
Sometimes, a surfeit of riches presents itself, and you wonder how to fit everything together. On occasion, you manage it, on others, you take the easy way out and just bash out some unrelated bits, not even pretending to try to link them...
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DAMN INACCURACIES
Muscat’s party has got itself into all of a tizzy about whistleblowing and criminal prosecutions and other high-sounding concepts. Let’s kill off the first one, about whistleblowing. In the real world, having a Whistle Blower Act in place, while...
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SILLY YOUTH
In an Opinion Piece just under my Beck column (the cheek), Ms Nikita Alamango let it be known that she is proud to be part of the Labour Party (not a Movement any more, apparently - or did she drift off-message?) for various reasons. She wrote this...
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Of yellow pills and tablets
Tablets? Seriously? Tablets ? Wait a minute....maybe we’re talking about those little yellow pills that we all need to feel better every now and then. If that’s the case then maybe I could twist and stretch my imagination enough to justify giving...
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A revolution in the offing
Both political parties have promised the computer tablets will be given to school children; but there are vast differences between the promises made so far. The Partit Laburista is promising a free tablet computer to Year IV schoolchildren. Some...
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Moses’ and his brother’s tablet giveaways
Well well well. Moses went up a mountain and came down with two tablets. And in Malta it wasn’t just Joseph and his amazing offers of tablets to schoolchildren—now it’s Lawrence’s turn to do the same and offer manna and more manna. Moses tapped his...
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The new Moses and his tablets
This man Joseph is definitely going to pull us out of our doldrums. He rocks. No, I’ll rephrase that—he super-rocks. He loves everyone like a modern hippy. He’s going to solve our deficit, save our crumbling economy and, together with his trusted...
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IN OR OUT?
A politician operating on a peripheral European island-state, eager to appease insular, small-minded readers of tabloids, many of them crypto-racists who hate the idea of being properly regulated and who wrap themselves in the flag at the mere...
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Lancing the boil
I’m not sure anyone realised that some other things—both horrible and great—have been happening in Malta and the world while we are choked to boredom by the energy debate currently gripping this rock. Yes there is a life outside our gaseous debates.
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NOT LESSER GODS
Muscat's plagiarised whinge of "Oligarchy" was given the lie by his warm-up act yesterday. Dr Robert Abela, who is not contesting the elections within Muscat's ranks, is the son of H.E. The President and a practising lawyer, whose firm holds the...
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Deliverable not delivered
I will from time to time comment on some media aspect or other of the campaign. Perhaps a couple of paragraphs on the media use being made by one of the revelations of the campaign: Konrad Mizzi. He has developed a very particular style. Ask him...
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B(OORINGLY) A(SEPTIC)
I've always been uncomfortable with certain regulatory aspects of the Broadcasting Authority (BA, now do you get the title?) having as I do this perhaps somewhat archaic respect for freedom of speech and viewers' intelligence. It is true that the...
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Adoption IS in a child’s best interest
Whenever a child is adopted from all over the civilised world, the best interest of the child is always given utmost importance. When potential adoptive parents apply to adopt a child they are put under huge scrutiny. Their personal backgrounds,...
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Energetic testimonials
God bless this country. It definitely rocks. Now the Labour brigade has announced to us that Jesmond Mugliett approves of their energy plans. Glory be for such wisdom. As I’ve said before, I’m quite ready to be convinced—however not like some others...
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We need us some Blackadder
Seems like we’re in desperate need of a Blackadder in Malta. Or rather, of a Rowan Atkinson. Not to distract us from the mega snorefest that has become the election campaign on both sides – although that wouldn’t be a half bad idea. Seriously, when...
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USING A WOMAN'S PERSONAL TRAGEDY
That politicians can't resist the temptation to resort to little gimmicks come election time is a given. Babies are kissed, ties and funny hats are donned and doffed depending on the expected audience and little islands with three inhabitants are...
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Boring ourselves to death
The electoral campaign has begun with a vengeance. We were bombarded by references to LAN (I hope I got it right), the interconnector, gas pipelines, all sorts of figures and statistics, technical data galore. The discussion about the utility rates...
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Electro tricks and trickery
Now it’s full-out war on the battlefields about electric and water tariffs.. I am hardly an expert in spin or in matters electrical. I can hardly change a bulb without a frenzied call to the power station for them to switch off their mainframes for...
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BRIDGING OCEANS WITH PIE
There's a saying about having enough dosh allows you to build roads on the sea. It doesn't mention pies in the sky, but perhaps it should. Joseph Muscat has made water and electricity rates his warhorse. It is the central theme of the campaign,...
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We’ve only just begun…
Electricity, gas pipelines, ships, tankers and watts…..this is all we got ever since the beginning of the electoral campaign last week. Frankly, I don’t think that there’s any true floater out there who can make head or tails of the PL proposal and...
