Blogs
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A TRULY SORRY SIGHT
It was recommended that I should track down some video of that Debono person and his antics outside the Xarabank studio. I did just that, and in order not to be influenced by what some might think are purposely chosen videos, I looked at one put up...
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NO BUT SERIOUSLY
I was about to settle down to watch Stephen Fry and a host of other genii in "12th Night" when my phone vibrated with the news that Labour had decided to come clean about using that Debono person in their war with the PN. According to Labour, he was...
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Santa’s coals and goodies
It seems that Santa has been carrying a bag full of goodies for journalists and one full of coals for the general public. Generally this is the time of year when hard stories become hard to find. Journalists have to make do with human and good feel...
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FINGER POINTING
That the arrest and arraignment of Judge Ray Pace is a shocking story which needs to be treated with reserve and caution should go without saying, but what have we got instead? Many of the commenters here resorted to more of "what is the country...
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What's wrong for the goose....
In the past weeks I’ve taken immense pleasure from the news that the police did not grant the animal circus organisers a license to set up at the Granaries in Floriana. The news came a few days before my birthday and admittedly it was the best...
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How Franco helped Gonzi
It’s safe to assume that the majority of die-hard Nationalists spent yesterday night sticking pins into their Franco Debono effigy (everyone has one nowadays, buy two get one free from the monti). Well, I think they should be sending him thank you...
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CHECK OUT THEIR IDOLS
Members of the commenting class who qualify as members of Labour's chorus of Lil'Elves and Peculiar Pundits, and a few of the mainstream columnists whose output is characterised by their smug conviction that they know better than Dr Gonzi a) how to...
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BOTOX JOE
I heard a good one a couple of days ago. Joseph Muscat, current leader of the Labour Party, should be allowed to patent himself, which is not precisely possible from the tiny amount of law I know. He should also create and register a TradeMark. ...
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Needless, heart-breaking and bewildering
A 46-year-old nurse is dead; presumed suicide. Two children are orphans. A husband is now a widower. A family is shattered. This in a nutshell is the tragedy of the Saldanha family. Jacintha Saldanha, till recently unknown except to her family,...
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Why don’t we just float away?
Just read a blog which was all about why said blogger is a floater. You know the type—they float and sit on a fence and love spoiling their vote. She explains that this time it will either be AD or maybe she will, at the last minute, decide to stay...
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TYPICALLY JOSEPH
One of the Budget measures that seems to have irked the Labour Party’s current leader, Joseph Muscat, very much is the increase in income that has been provided for, which has had the result, apparently, that a couple of thousand minimum wage...
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Merry “!!£%$£”$£ Christmas
If you’re of the particularly quick and clever type, you might have already gathered that I dread this time of year with a passion. Not only is it cold and about to get colder, not only are days shorter and about to get even shorter, but there’s...
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Beyond the confines of Church structures
Last weekend a pastoral letter written by both our bishops was read in all churches in Malta and Gozo. The subject treated, as well as the manner of its treatment were by no means easy. But the subject is of greatest importance. The pastoral letter...
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Lessons from a “certain” Victor Calleja
The Labour media (including the most objective GWU papers) thinks I am a certain Victor Calleja. Hmmm sounds ominous. Or maybe what they mean is that I am unknown and a nonentity. Oh well I know I am that and more (or less?) but at least the horse I...
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Values? What values?
So beating up a woman to a pulp merits a mere two-year imprisonment sentence while the proposal to put up Anthony Neilson's theatrical work Stitching merits censorship from the highest court of the land and an outcry from half the nation due to...
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LOINS GIRDED
I'm tapping this out on my iPhone 5 after an excellent meal at Tad-Dutch in Qala, listening to some equally fine music at Zeppi's. Simon Busuttil has just been elected Deputy Leader of the Nationalist Party, a clear signal to the electorate and,...
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Stitching … the controversy goes on
The highest court of the country, the Constitutional Court of Appeal, has ruled in favour of the decision of the Film and Stage Classification Board to ban the showing of the play Stitching. The Constitutional Court has thus confirmed the decision...
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What a glorious place we live in
What a few days these have been. Ever since Dalli was sent packing with hardly enough time to close his attaché case we have witnessed quite a bit. A new EU commissioner was chosen and after a grilling and a keenly expected contest our Tonio romped...
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SAYS IT ALL
In a Tweet (so apt) just after the Budget speech, Joseph Muscat said that if the PM wasn't phased about awarding himself €500 a week, he wasn't going to be phased about bringing down energy tariffs. No mention as to how, of course, but then he only...
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No foreigners please, we’re Maltese
The general anti-foreign sentiments that float around this country are getting a bit disgusting. The whole ‘global village’ and ‘citizens of the world’ thing seems to have escaped most of us and this week’s events have only served to highlight the...
