Jacques René Zammit

When Franco is history

26.04.2012
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Back in January when Franco Debono’s rumblings had set everyone on edge and prepared a nation for a snap election that never was J’accuse was busy pointing out that the fascination about all things Franco would soon be overshadowed by much more pressing concerns. The national fascination with the controversy surrounding snap elections and the [...]


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Cheap noodles and les nouveaux pauvres

23.04.2012
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Marie Louise Coleiro Preca II is not the name of a boat. It is the name of MLCP’s second facebook page that was started after the first one was oversubscribed. Marie Louise Coleiro Preca II shared a post with Marie Louise Coleiro Preca about a meeting that was held at the PL club in Fgura [...]


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I.M. Jack – the Monday Progressives

23.04.2012
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Short notes from the weekend. Marine – Le Pen got 20% of the votes in yesterday’s first round scrutiny in France. Francois Hollande (complaining left) will battle it out with Nicholas Sarkozy (exhausting right) in the next round of votes that will determine the next Monsieur le President. French radios are all abuzz this morning [...]


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Cabinet Decisions & RCC’s Head

20.04.2012
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The Labour party has finally found a way to get at Richard Cachia Caruana on something based on fact rather than on the irritation at an unelected person having a purported strong influence on cabinet decisions (pace Franco Debono). The accusation is based on Wikileaks that portray an active RCC (oh the heavy acronym) lobbying [...]


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Show me the money

19.04.2012
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Dosh Watching Chelsea replicate Internazionale’s catenaccio last night I could not help but wonder why I still harboured feelings of sympathy for the London club built to the tune of Abramovich’s millions. There is a general sense of resentment that is held against football clubs built with the money of tycoons and not with the [...]


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Deconstructing Malta’s Architecture

18.04.2012
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Or rather its architects. An article on last Sunday’s Times “Property slowdown driving architects out of business” focused on the employment problems faced by architects today “with large architectural firms laying off staff due to lack of work”. It is not clear whether the article was prompted by a press conference or press release or [...]


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I.N.R.I – la tordue (maqluba)

17.04.2012
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The original song is in French (scroll below for video). I have tried my luck at translating it. Yep. Just for fun.   I.N.R.I – la tordue kollu tort tiegħek dan kollu tort tiegħek dawk kollha li jiġu għandek qatt ma jiġu lura fik inwaħħlu ħabib fik inwaħħlu tiġġennibx hekk ħabib tiġġennibx hekk hawn m’għandniex [...]


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Jeffrey “il-Matur”, Mustafa “Kemal” and the “Non-European” Turks

17.04.2012
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The Chronicle On the plane back to Luxembourg I was browsing through the Times of Malta and got to read my favourite section (a section that is sadly not reproduced on the internet version). The “A Century Ago” corner reproduces randomly selected articles from the “Daily Malta Chronicle” edition a hundred years back. Yesterday’s selection [...]


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I.M. Jack – The Saturday Protest Edition

14.04.2012
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Saint Julian’s Paceville’s suburb and older neighbour is sending out an SOS for help. An Old Aloysian prefect of discipline has set up the SAVE SAINT JULIAN’S campaign after having noticed an alarming amount of planned projects concentrated within a small area between Balluta and Spinola. Yes, in many ways it could look like another [...]


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Ars Culinaris

14.04.2012
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J’accuse rarely ventures into the field of culinary blogging or, for that matter, of restaurant reviewing. We do drop a mention of a place that has tickled our senses every now and then but we very rarely sit down to blog simply to write poems and sing songs about one particular establishment. Well the time [...]


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