Tag: Jon Mallia
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Nationalists who agree on selling citizenship
I’m still confused as to why the Nationalist Party is still insisting that it agrees on giving out Maltese citizenship to foreign investors. There’s something deeply wrong with the Nationalist Party if its youth don’t even subscribe to its most fundamental principles: a problem that is surely shared by the Labour Party. In Jon Mallia’s…
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AI as a socialist tool for delabourisation
I enjoyed listening to Jon Mallia’s latest podcast with Gege Gatt on “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), and he comes out as very intelligent. He says that AI can help reform the government by cutting manual processes in bureaucracy especially in the public sector, effectively making working in bureaucracy more humane. The discussion was also very informative…
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The latest counter-counter-culture podcast trend
It took just one successful counter-culture podcast (Jon Mallia) for the Labour government to incentivise a pro-Labour counter-counter-culture podcast season with every Tom Dick and Harry making ingratiating and propagandistic podcasts with politicians. A rundown of who’s doing regular interviews with politicians in the Maltese media landscape reads less like a list of journalists and…
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Headmaster admits questioning teacher over lack of approval for her public comments
UPDATED 10.19 HRS: The Malta Union of Teachers is finally doing something about this. They just announced they have sent a petition to the government against the circular. More updates later. A headmaster has admitted he questioned a teacher over comments she made about the education system in public which were not previously approved. The…
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The Minister of Culture’s favourite Maltese book is a children’s book
Earlier this week, Minister of Culture Owen Bonnici appeared on Jon Mallia’s TV show Il-Kazin where he gave a very inarticulate defense of the massive corrupt expenditure disbursed by the Ministry of Culture. Join Mallia is also a culture professional involved in the music industry and knows the subject well, apart from being born into…
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A moratorium on high-rise towers would raise property prices
Another major problem with Arnold Cassola’s party is that its policies don’t make sense. Another point that was made during Jon Mallia’s show called Il-Kazin, was the uncontrolled construction frenzy. Both ADPD and Arnold Cassola’s Momentum seem to agree that a moratorium on the construction of high-rises is a good solution. I don’t know from…
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Crashing your political party debut with misogyny
Arnold Cassola’s party debut is going exactly as I thought it would. Last year, I interviewed Arnold Cassola and challenged him for failing to work with the same party he founded, ADPD. Arnold Cassola has a reputation among Green Party activists of being very uncompromising, vane, and extremely arrogant. Arnold Cassola always brought the excuse…
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Excellent description by Jon Mallia about the state of Malta’s academics
This description by Jon Mallia about the state of Malta’s academics is excellent. Academics at the University of Malt are paid a salary from public funds, and even given job security. They also spend their free time conducting consultancy work even for the government itself. Yet, despite having all of these financial benefits, they are…
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Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri fails to show up at planned debate with Shadow Minister
Riddled with a history of cover-ups, dysfunction and outright political abuse, the Minister for Home Affairs, Byron Camilleri would never withstand a debate against his Opposition spokesperson and Shadown Minister. The officials at the Labour are probably very much aware of this so they, along with Supreme Leader Robert Abela would probably discourage him to…
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Here’s the President of the European Parliament explaining why she is not allowed to debate other European Parliament members or candidates
Yesterday, I watched a discussion between Jon Mallia’s patrons and Roberta Metsola, where she was asked several hard questions. She also explained why she didn’t debate current Labour Party MEPs or European Parliament candidates. The President of the European Parliament argued that as the presiding chair over other MEPs, regulations do not allow her to…
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The underlying context as to why we need full justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia
Something which I have been trying to express all along in these articles is that ensuring justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia is a national matter with national implications. It is for the this very reason that the Labour government is preventing full justice from being made, because the consequences will have national implications including for…
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A couple of words on my friend Jon Mallia
Times will be ever more challenging for independent journalists, so I will be increasingly supportive of my friends and colleagues. Strange things will happen to us as well, and we will be faced with unjust attacks. Jon Mallia has succeeded in doing a great feat by building his private media company and products and chapeau…
