Tag: Podcast
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Junior Minister for Equality and Reforms Rebecca Buttigieg sponsored Ricky Caruana’s podcasts
The Minister for Equality and Reforms Rebecca Buttigieg is one of the sponsors of Ricky Caruana’s podcasts, despite her very late protests about his podcast featuring a convicted pedophile. Justin Haber was also a Labour Party member and local councilor. This is not the first time that Minister Buttigieg criticised the podcast show-host over sexism…
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The General Workers’ Union promotes Keith Schembri’s rehabilitation
The media arm of the General Workers’ Union, Talk News (talk.mt), has uploaded a promotional clip of the interview with Keith Schembri, by the latest prime-time host of the public broadcaster, Ricky Caruana. For the record, the interview will appear on the host’s private podcast, as part of his reputation-laundering series of episodes for Malta’s…
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Populist talk dominates the Nationalist Party’s discourse
Populist talk currently dominates the discourse on the future of the Nationalist Party and its ongoing process to find a new Party leader. Alex Borg is seen as the likeliest alternative for the leadership of the Nationalist Party. Everyone expected Franco Debono to nominate himself as as potential leader of the Nationalist Party. Although very…
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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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A celebration of mediocrity and trash TV
I love the Bajd u Bacon show for currently being the most hated show in the Maltese media landscape. Those who hate it are the same people who would celebrate and justify the murder of journalists, defend corruption, and indulge in stupid and mediocre rubbish that reinforces their already ingrained orthodoxies. None of the people…
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A reply to Sammy Meilaq: the last socialist who didn’t sell his soul
Yesterday, of course, I watched Jon Mallia’s premier of his podcast with Sammy Meilak. I am pretty sure I am going to make many readers angry with this post. For those who don’t know me, I have always been fascinated by how Malta against all odds developed economically from a poor and miserable country to…
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Europe is not Norway: a reply to Francesca De Benedetti’s article on Ursula von der Leyen
There’s a very good reason why Norway’s economy could fly off higher than most of everyone’s else in Europe: they have gas and oil and they have lots of them. Denmark too enjoyed the benefits of oil and gas exports while Sweden and Finland’s economic success has a history of industrialisation based on a center-left…
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John Rizzo has some serious regrets, but he didn’t say that
I watched Jon Mallia’s podcast with previous police commissioner John Rizzo with great interest but also in awe at Rizzo’s incredible change of character. Or maybe, it’s because I remember him differently given that I was a low-life punk and he was the dominant police chief who locked us in when we broke the law.…
