Tag: MaltaToday
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It’s not a bitter pill: it’s an existential threat
I’m linking MaltaToday’s editorial published today as a follow-up reference to my criticism. There are two major errors that MaltaToday does with this article. First of all, according to MaltaToday, increasing libel damages is “a bitter pill to swallow” — maybe for them, as they depend on public financing. For the independent press, which does…
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The Labour government’s Viktor-Orban-styled manipulation of the press
When I founded The Maltese Herald , we started with three employees and myself. After four years locked in a Court battle with the Maltese government, I was finally able to tap public funding and received a government contract. The Maltese press is mostly dependent on public funding. When I received my contract, Saviour Balzan…
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Noting the “intellectuals” supporting the Labour Party’s proposed dictatorship
Deborah Schembri, a lawyer and previous Labour Party MP has penned an article in MaltaToday that plays intellectual gymnastics to condemn the Opposition for opposing the Labour government’s proposed dictatorial takeover of the judiciary. She also describes Judge Consuelo Scerri Herrera as academic, erudite and efficient (she is none of these). Schembri also makes an…
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Labour increases lead over PN: now over 9,200 votes
The Labour Party continues to hold a narrow lead over the Nationalist Party, maintaining a three-point advantage that equates to 9,262 votes, according to the first MaltaToday survey for 2026. The survey places PL support at 48.9%, while the PN stands at 45.7%. Collectively, third parties account for 5.4% of the vote. When compared to…
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Alkagesta pays for a PR campaign in the Maltese press while it is being investigated
Alkagesta is cluttering the internet with articles filled with nonsense that are being published by the local press. Its articles have appeared in The Malta Independent and MaltaToday. I don’t find it surprising that some media outlets, but especially MaltaToday, have preferred to profit from an entity that is being investigated about trading in Russian…
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Here’s how Judge Toni Abela exposed his impartiality in his prohibitive Court sentence
Retired Judge Toni Abela gave an interview to the Times of Malta and stressed that the judiciary should be impartial. In his sentence handed in the Constitutional case to invoke the right to publish Yorgen Fenech’s chats, Judge Toni Abela used excerpts from Saviour Balzan‘s writings to describe my work. Toni Abela is an old…
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Robert Aquilina’s wife requests Court to drop domestic violence charges and condemns character assassination campaign against Robert Aquilina
Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa, the Labour Party and the Women’s Rights Foundation have damaged years of work and advocacy about domestic violence and women’s rights after having conducted a character assassination campaign against Robert Aquilina on false allegations that he beat his wife. Robert Aquilina’s wife issued a statement in which she declared that she…
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Losing control of the Labour Party’s narrative
The Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader has lost control over the official narrative of the Labour Party with Joseph Muscat’s faction having taken a very good advantage over the Prime Minister in the sphere of communications. Joseph Muscat’s faction in Labour is, of course, currently being propped up by MaltaToday, and Saviour Balzan is…
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Actual journalists don’t attack independent journalists: propagandists do
I haven’t seen such visceral and widespread hatred by Labour Party supporters toward an independent journalist since Daphne Caruana Galizia was alive. Despite regular threats, public references to my family members (also subtle threats), and a visceral and hateful campaign against our work, no journalist in Malta has stepped up to come to our defence.…
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We will not be moved by bullying, threats, or disinformation by organised criminals
The owner of MaltaToday and Illum, Saviour Balzan is using his press outlets to conduct a very aggressive disinformation campaign against us following our success in tapping public funds. The aggressive and intimidating campaign comes after we won a Constitutional case in Court that found the government to be discriminating against us. Our legal case…
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Secretary-General of the General Workers Union comes out against ReArm Europe programme
The Secretary-General of the General Workers Union Josef has come out against Europe’s ReArm Europe Programme in an an article that was published in MaltaToday. MaltaToday is a government-funded newspaper. The General Workers Union is Malta’s largest trade union and claims to have up to 46,000 members but the actual figures of active and paying…
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Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech brought back from the dead to save the Labour government from Magisterial Inquiries
UPDATE: We have received a short statement by Jason Azzopardi saying that he did not give any comments to the press about the ongoing Magisterial Inquiry requests and he will only give comments in Court. This week I was exceptionally busy with foreign affairs, so some things may have slipped my radar, but I am…
