From the Guardian (with thanks to David Friggieri for the pointer) Glasgow-born Carol Ann Duffy chooses meaty subject for first poem as poet laureate – MPs’ expenses: POLITICS How it makes of your face a stone that aches to weep, of your heart a fist, clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tongue an iron…

Obama’s palm… weapons of pest destruction (on the fly)

“The opportunism beggars belief.” Simon Busuttil, MEP commenting on the MEP election campaign on the Times of Malta. How’s that for an eye-opener? della serie J’accuse does a onenetmaltarightnowstar style “lift” P.S. That’s not what he meant

According to reports from the island, the whole of Malta (and Gozo) is currently sans electrique. Smart Island does it again I guess. Which means that the number of readers of J’accuse is probably now down to one. Meanwhile elsewhere on the blogosphere J’accuse has been accused of bitching for pointing out to the owner of Malta’s most popular…

This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in The Malta Independent on Sunday. Dense and denser Turnout was low. Incredibly low. Notwithstanding heavy investment in a campaign that urged voters to use their prerogative to determine who will best represent them in Brussels, most voters preferred to cock a snook at all things Bruxellois and deserted…

Or why SuperOneJoseph is bad news…. a post by guest blogger Justin BB What Joseph Did Joseph Muscat won a huge majority. Well done to him. The choice of a number of candidates who are palatable to the middle class helped, but that was not the clincher. No, Muscat won so handily because he ticked…