This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. Dal Notaro It’s past midnight in the Grand Duchy and I am back from a birthday celebration at one of the many restaurants that try to pass for Italian in this corner of Europe. “Dal Notaro” is no different from…

Cicale!

It’s time for La Vecchia Signora to start thinking about the future. This transition year was not exactly pleasant. Hungry fans wanted success fast and will be disappointed with the way it turned out. J’accuse believes that the real, competitive Juve is still nowhere to be found. Juve had a team that could hold together…

It started with a plagiarised electoral slogan but now the idea of plagiarising is taking on monumental proportions chez the nationalist party in Malta. Both Austin Sammut and Simon Busuttil have recently heaped praises on the superior quality of the PN candidates. If the PN spin were to be believed then the list of candidates…

Fausto calls any reasoning that renders his championing of the Nationalists uncomfortable “convoluted” (Twisted Politics 2). Good for him. I am sure he finds Simon Busuttil’s convolution music to his ears – a chacun son gout. In any case today we deal with another trumpet of the Nationalist agenda -that paragon of impartial objective truths……

The best time for a round-up on the goings on in an electoral campaign is always on a Monday. That’s because the different candidates will have been busy spraying their wise thoughts and marking their territories with the electorate. It’s no different on the little island where the long-weekend was the right excuse for campaigns…