Author: Jacques René Zammit

  • Blood on their hands

      On any other day this facebook post would have been taken up and pasted onto the Running Commentary. The blog is no more but the spirit not only lives on but will grow. I am reproducing this post here with the kind permission of its author Justin Borg Barthet.  We don’t know who ordered…

  • Black Monday

    Black Monday

    “Chi ha paura muore ogni giorno, chi non ha paura muore una volta sola.” – Paolo Borsellino  

  • Leader of the Opposition

    Leader of the Opposition

    Adrian Delia is frantically fighting a race against time. It has become increasingly evident that his gamble for leadership of the nationalist party did not include the foresight or plan that would account for the fact that he needs to find a way to get into parliament. This lack of foresight does not bode well…

  • La elección nos absolverá.

    La elección nos absolverá.

      For a fleeting moment, during a run up to an election and even after its inevitable aftermath, the nationalist party (and the wider coalition that had been formed) had seemed to be the best option to fight corruption and begin the much needed process of constitutional change. We were conscious that this was a…

  • Ittra miftuħa lil tesserat tal-partit nazzjonalista li se jivvota għada

    Ittra miftuħa lil tesserat tal-partit nazzjonalista li se jivvota għada

      Għażiż tesserat, Wisq probabbli ma nafekx u jekk nafek m’aħniex ħbieb minn ta’ ġewwa (kif jgħidu… ma nieklux kirxa flimkien). Xorta nixtieqek tippermettili ngħidlek kelma … tismagħni… kif sar wisq moda li ngħidu f’dawn iż-żmienijiet. Għandi xi ngħidlek u nixtieq ngħidulek għax il-vot tiegħek għada jikkonċernani ukoll – din id-darba iktar minn qatt qabel.…

  • No Way to the New Way

    No Way to the New Way

    Adrian Delia’s adopted slogan for his leadership bid is “Mod Ġdid” (New Way). In his latest outing before the press the candidate for leadership now claims to be persecuted by the PN establishment. It is clear now that his intention is to drive a wedge between himself, his support (supposedly the most of anti-establishment of…