This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday (21.06.09). From the point of view of a Maltese citizen living in Luxembourg, this week’s most newsworthy event happening in Malta was undoubtedly the expensive day-long blackout. Smart Malta still being in the process of being dragged kicking and screaming…

This blog is about to undergo a period of temporary hiatus of three days*. It’s National Day Weekend in Luxembourg so Jacques packs his bags and rushes to a place of sun and sea (hopefully). If, like “Charles Cauchi”, you think you will miss me in my absence, no worries – the usual fare of…

We were unable to make it to the final ceremony in Rotterdam last weekend and so we only just got to know the news. The awards for the Th!nkaboutit pan-European blogging competition organised by the European Journalism Centre have been announced. J’accuse is honoured and pleased to announce that it was selected as one of the 20…

The Italian newspaper La Stampa reports the story of Salvatore Cancemi, captain of the Italian fishing boat “Twenty Two”. On a stromy night Captain Cancemi and his crew defied the odds and bad weather and saved 300 souls from the sea. They returned to Lampedusa to a heroes welcome. Lampedusa too suffers wave upon wave…

    or why netiquette is another way of setting standards in blogging and why Vivamalta.org went one up on Running Commentary I had almost let this subject to rest. There is after all, only a minimum amount of reasoning that can be had with extremists. I had after all been told that netiquette should…

“e ‘ntru u culu all’opposizione!” Italian comedian Antonio Albanese in a satyre of the politician “Cetto Laqualunque”.