Author: Mark Camilleri
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In a heated Parliament exchange Prime Minister says he will pass no Anti-Mafia reforms
A heated debate followed in Parliament yesterday between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition after Alex Borg accused the Prime Minister of contradicting himself by doing one thing in Malta and saying something completely opposite in New York at the United Nations. The Opposition Leader said that the Prime Minister has been…
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Beppe Fenech Adami and Beppe Galea press the Prime Minister on Ukraine
Replying to the Prime Minister in Parliament yesterday, Beppe Fenech Adami noted that the Prime Minister’s tone on Ukraine had changed. He said that in March last year, the Prime Minister had said it was impossible for Ukraine to win the war and that Ukraine needed to make compromises in order to achieve peace. However,…
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Nominee Prime Minister Ian Borg lays out accommodating message to disgraced ex-Premier Joseph Muscat
Last Friday, Michelle Muscat’s Marigold Foundation held an event at the Verdala Palace hosted by the President of Malta Myriam Spiteri Debono. Present for the event was also the current Deputy-Prime Minister and Health Minister Ian Borg and also the head of the civil service Tony Sultana. The event concerned Michelle Muscat’s annual campaign about…
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The Prime Minister should commemorate Daphne Caruana Galizia to reduce national divisions
Let’s be honest. The reason why the Labour Party’s propaganda machine has kept spreading hatred and bile against the famiytof Daphne Cruan is that the Labour Party leader and Prime Minister allows it. The individuals in the Labor Party’s top brass have done nothing to stop it. Even the President of the Labour Party, Alex…
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Confirmed: one extra vote for Wayne Sammut following Labour Party Executive Committee elections
After further clarifications we have confirmed that Wayne Sammut was elected to the Labour Party’s Executive Committee on Saturday after a recount was made and an extra vote was found for Wayne Sammut. It is unclear how the vote was missing and then found but a meeting was called before the recount. A meeting was…
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US bombers leave RAF Fairford
US bombers including B-1B Lancers have left the UK’s RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. Last week the British Prime Minister said that Iran was suspected of being involved in the attack. Tehran denied involvement but a UK-Iranian national was among the men arrested suspected of attempting a terrorist attack on the base. Pentagon officials told major…
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Labour Party delegates demand recount of Executive Committee elections
UPDATED: We need to correct the reporting because the meeting featured below took place yesterday with the meeting executing a recount and confirming that Wayne Sammut got more votes than Eman Felice. However a new meeting is being organised in the coming hours at CNL on this issue since Party delegates are still calling out…
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Ronald il-Muga sends his regards (and a threat)
I receive many threats including death threats on a daily basis, but this is one of those threats that I don’t take seriously. Ronald il-Muga (or Muġa), featured here, sent us a direct threat. He told us that we will have problems. What is he going to do? Run after me? I’m willing to take…
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Much ado about nothing at the Labour Party General Conference
The Labour Party’s annual general conference was uneventful and consisted of no new major announcements. Speakers at the conference included Alex Agius Saliba, Minister Glenn Bedingfield and Prime Minister Robert Abela who all indulged in beautiful pltitudes about how much they love their country and party. There were the usual redundant diatribes against the Opposition…
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Breaking the bank to get elected
There is a very good reason why first-world economies don’t use populist measures: they don’t work. Labour seems to believe that is re-inventing the wheel by executing a populist subsidy policy when these kind of policies are already widely applied in many third-world countries including in Egypt and Pakistan. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana has changed…
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China’s dog abuse culture evolves into a social media trend
China has an animal abuse problem but especially a dog abuse problem. There are no laws against animal cruelty in China and abuse against dogs is widely accepted and tolerated. There are very political, cultural and anthropological reasons why this is so. China is a very hierarchal society were authority is strictly top down. This…
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How the Labour government wants to use us as an example (and how we are fighting back)
I was never going to write this piece because this is about petty local culture politics However, seeing the same authors who sneer and wage underhanded campaigns against me only to then pose for pictures with the same Minister of Culture who insulted Daphne Caruana Galizia, makes my blood boil and I will expose the…