David Casa’s favourite journalist at the Guardian describes Angela Merkel as “Non-ideological, centrist, eschewing confrontation” and “non-partisan” to boot. Ian Traynor’s analysis on Merkel’s electoral victory last night (Merkel persuades Germans she is people’s chancellor, but result leaves her vulnerable) concludes that the second weakest result for the CDU menas that Angela Merkel is now…

This article and accompanying Bertoon (click image to enlarge) appear in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. This week we start with the plaudits. Antoine Cassar, former blogger and current poet has won the Grand Prize in the United Planet Writing Contest 2009. It’s a great achievement for the man who I got…

This letter appears in today’s edition of The Times (UK) under the heading “Britain must do its bit to sort out the Calais Jungle Problem”: Sir, Recent media coverage of the situation in Calais (“Dawn raid on the Jungle to end migrants’ stay in Calais shantytown”, report, Sept 23) does not reflect the fact that some…

Speaking to Brasilian bishops, Pope Benedict the sixteenth was unequivocal about his opinion on the effect of divorce: «La Chiesa non può restare indifferente davanti alla separazione dei coniugi e ai divorzi – ha detto papa Ratzinger rivolgendosi ai vescovi brasiliani – davanti alla rovina delle famiglie, e dalle conseguenze create nei figli dal divorzio.…

The UN Security Council has unanimously endorsed a resolution that commits member nations to work toward a world without nuclear weapons, and endorses a broad framework of actions to reduce global nuclear risks. (BBC) In the UK the reduction of spending on nuclear armaments has become an integral part of the political debate. At approximately…

I know that most readers will find this hard to believe but here at J’accuse we don’t really relish having to deal with these cases of plagiarism or lazy article writing. We feel obliged however to report that only two days after David “Scissorhands” Casa’s ‘article’ appeared in the Indy, another work of snippety art…