Tag: 2019
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Apparently, the Minister for Education has always been a bully
I had almost forgotten this episode but my readers gave me a timely reminder of this video by the The Malta Independent in December 2019. You can see Clifton Grima, today the Minister for Education, threatening and waving his finger at Opposition and Nationalist Party MP Karol Aquilina outside the Parliament building during the national…
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Lynton Crosby consulted Joseph Muscat over his 2019 foreign-promotion exit plan
Every beginning has an end and Joseph Muscat’s stately power began and ended with Lynton Crosby. Apart from having solicited Lynton Crosby and his pseudo-intelligence group to help him out in the 2013 general elections, Joseph Muscat also solicited Lynton Crosby in 2019 to help him out with his foreign-promotion exit plan. Joseph Muscat also…
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Reliving 2019 thanks to a video clip by Partit Demokratiku
It’s been nearly five years since the 2019 crisis took place, and I genuinely feel I have lived a whole lifetime since then. It’s hard to comprehend how many events since then have been condensed in such a short period of time, at least from my own personal experience. Here’s a clip of then Prime…
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Bernard Grech and Adrian Delia were also present at the National Protest on Thursday
Both the current Nationalist Party Leader Bernard Grech and previous leader Adrian Delia were present at Thursday’s national protest organised by Repubblika and other NGOs. Their presence coincided with other Nationalist Party MPs and prominent faces. I’m currently arguing there is a disunited opposition in the country and PN is heading to the polls by…
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Helena Dalli is a coward and an opportunist and doesn’t deserve to be President
Helena Dalli is publicly displaying her opportunistic and egomaniacal streak by complaining on the public broadcaster during the President’s inauguration ceremony that it was unfair for her not to be considered for the Presidency because she was part of Joseph Muscat’s cabinet. Her story is one of cowardice and outright opportunism. I was still a…
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Reversing 2019 and the slow march towards dictatorship
Dictatorships are not necessarily born by coups or dramatic violent events. Dictatorships or authoritarian regimes can also evolve from fragile liberal democracies and we’ve seen this process already such as in Turkey, Thailand, and Venezuela. In Europe, we have a milder version of this process which we call the “illiberal democracy” mostly popularised by Hungary.…
