Moviment Graffitti are organising a “Walk against racism” tomorrow evening. Here is an extract from the invitation I received: Paceville has long been a place where racism is the order of the day. The majority of clubs do not let black persons in and when these persons try to protest this decision they often risk…

Φ 6. The Knaves with Knives Tribal dualism is what this EP election has reaffirmed in many ways. Never was it more strikingly obvious than when the breeding ground of nationalist gossipry decried “Staunch Nationalists don’t campaign for Labour“. And to think we bothered to even try to argue with these people some time back.…

Φ 5. The Joke A huge lesson that this election has definitely reaffirmed is that the notion of an ‘intelligent voter’ is a rarity. The trouble runs deeper. It is not only the ‘intelligent’ voter who is conspicuous in his absence but also the ‘informed’ voter. It appears that nobody, or next to nobody, had…

Φ 4. Counting Votes The agony and ecstasy in Naxxar has gone on for over two days and we are nowhere nearer having more than one directly elected candidate (Simon Says Busuttil). The preference votes should have jumped from red to blue to green to black like a drunken frog and there were moments when the…

Φ 3. The Agony Aunt Watching Jason Micallef on Bondi+ you could easily begin to tear the hair out of your head. One by one. Jason Micallef really believes that there is no problem for PL if they attract people to their fold simply “ghax imwegghin” (because they are hurt) even if it is evident…

Φ 2. The Internecine Warfare There’s cracks in the party and now it’s a show for everyone to see. The Nationalist party was not only the main party to suffer from this general vote of no confidence in the system. For the first time ever the cracks and faults within the flailing structure of the…