Indy

J'accuse : Intemperate Winds

25.07.2010

It’s a windy Sunday, or at least it’s supposed to be. That’s if the weatherman got his calculations right and a strong wind should have been blowing across the island since last night acting as a downright spoiler to whatever estival events you might have planned. For me that means that a boat trip with [...]


INDEPENDENT 3 comments read full post

J'accuse : Courting Justice

04.07.2010

I’ve just watched Ghana get unceremoniously kicked out of the World Cup by an unsinkable Uruguay team. Having already witnessed a despondent Brazil being outmanoeuvred and outwitted by a resilient Netherlands, I started to strongly believe that there is no footballing god. When Luis Suarez punched the ball off the line in the last of [...]


INDEPENDENT 0 comments read full post

J'accuse : Show me the funny

23.05.2010

Laughter, they say, is the best medicine. More often than not a good sense of humour is the ideal sort of equipment to deal with hard times – that and a constant reminder that “this too shall pass”. The intelligent ability to make light of one’s own troubles must not be confused with ignorance of [...]


INDEPENDENT 0 comments read full post

Gurnalizmu fuq Kollox – the Sunday quotes

09.05.2010

Some time ago J’accuse commented on how Bondi’s programme Bondiplus represented the death of investigative journalism. Only last week we pointed out the incongruency of the next programme planned by Lou – with Norman Lowell as guest. So. Is it still Gurnalizmu fuq Kollox? Hardly. Here’s what was said in the press today: The day [...]


Mediawatch 8 comments read full post

Daphne says Give Up

02.05.2010

I got some advice from fellow blogger/columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia this week. “Here’s a tip, Jacques,” she said, “try writing things that people want to read. If you haven’t got yourself an audience in five years I’d say it’s time to give up.” Now it’s probably good to know that other people take such a [...]


INDEPENDENT 15 comments read full post

Even Stevens

25.04.2010

Fellow Indy columnist Stephen Calleja has penned an obituary and death sentence in one on today’s edition of the Malta Independent. Calleja introduces his column (“Too weak too be called a force”) with the inspired sentence “Another tiddler has called it a day”. For those among us who have little or no knowledge in the [...]


Politics 5 comments read full post

J'accuse : Traffic

25.04.2010

Traffic is an interesting phenomenon. The paths of a multiplicity of freethinking vehicle-driving individuals possessing varying levels of intelligence quotients converge for a short period of time as they attempt to negotiate their own way from A to B. For a short time these paths converge and the momentary confusion of priorities and interpretations on [...]


INDEPENDENT 0 comments read full post

Next Entries →