Author: Jacques René Zammit

  • Flimkien kontra il-kurrent

     (Together … against the current). The PN mean machine continues to build on its earlier plagiarism of Sarkozy’s “Ensemble tout est possible” slogan. This time round the geeks at Dar Centrali have come up with a mind-boggling slogan for the European Parliament elections. You see they must have thought long and hard for a credible…

  • What's on his mind now?

    I recently added free-to-air satellite to my numerous channels at home and have begun to follow UK tv on a regular basis. One of the stories that struck me last week (BBC) was that of Richard da Costa – a communications consultant and actor who took time out from work to live for four days…

  • I.M. Jack (the return)

    Times on EP elections The Times of Malta online site has a funky new European Elections section. It may not be believable at first sight but the Times remains the most avant-garde of newspaper sites available in Malta. The Strickland House publication has decided to capitalise on the internet fever during election time and one…

  • J'accuse: Going Medieval

    Inspired by some righteous shit from one of our men in brussels.

  • Marthese launches her campaign

    What is it with these candidates these days? You can tell that they are dying for a US Presidential style election – they would kill for an aeroplane, a bus or a train in which to leap from State to State yelling their salvational messages at the four winds. Instead we get these fancy declarations…

  • Doctorin' the House

    This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared on today’s edition of the Malta Independent on Sunday. I hate number crunching. Statistics have never been my forte and although I did enjoy a period of mathematical bliss during the dreaded ‘Ordinary Level’ stage, it had more to do with the aesthetic perfection of geometry than the mesmerising…