Why wait for the Finance Minister to announce rises in utilities bills during his budget speech when you could read it all in the Daily Mail the next day? Actually what is reported in the Mail  is what one would expect in a normal country – and the leader of the opposition should know given…

The 2009 budget is out and we already have the first reactions. PL Leader Joseph Muscat predictably labeled this year’s budget as irresponsible, his main target being the fact that no indication has been given in this budget as to what the extent of the new raise in the utilities bill will be. J’accuse predicts…

The debate on censorship, explicit language and Alex Vella Gera rages on. And J’accuse still has much to add. At some point yesterday Alex Vella Gera’s status on Facebook read as follows: “Kemm qed ituni f’ghajni dan-nies kollha li qed jikkundannaw il-ban ta’ Ir-Realta, imma fl-istess nifs qed jghidu kemm l-istorja tieghi hija bla sens u…

Juanito Camilleri should thank his lucky stars. At least he had to contend with a bit of paper that could be considered by the more conservative elements of society as being a tad on the raunchy side. His counterparts at the Brasilian University of Bandeirantes had to resort to another form of censorship. Apparently student…

This article and accompanying Bertoon (click to enlarge) appear in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. The Word You do not need to be of a bible-bashing persuasion in order to recognise that within “the word” resides a power that can never be taken away. Much before an evangelist named John placed “the…

That’s the number of the case that has us all talking. It’s Lautsi vs Italy and just in case you are one of those whose job it is to edit the comments on the Times let me remind you that the case is set before the European Court of Human Rights and not the European…