The government is down on its knees. Well not really it isn’t. It’s just a metaphorical way of seeing the government’s whole-hearted appeal to shopkeepers to collaborate in the implementation of the eco-contribution on plastic carrier bags. The Independent had investigated the situation in Valletta on Monday and found that Valletta hawkers were prepared to…

Fausto thinks that J’accuse (and it’s cartoonist) are busy pulling bunnies out of their respective hats (Bunnies out of a hat). In reply to our Sunday digest (J’accuse: What Lies Beneath), Fausto asserts that we have been up to some tricks of our own. His apologia pro the Nationalist Party is based on a number…

The GRTU said today that Vince Farrugia, a PN candidate for the European Parliament elections, would stay on as its director-general but would not speak on its behalf until the elections were held on June 6. Which means what exactly? That should Vince Farrugia not get elected on June 6th he would then revert to…

Prestidigitation You’ve seen that trick before. The one where the guy holds three cards in his hands and turns them face down, shuffles them expertly before asking a goggle-eyed crowd to take their pick and find the Queen that’s hidden among the Jacks. Most times there is money involved and, more often than not, the…

Bishop Nikol Cauchi has commented that the Church has the duty to speak about divorce. “The church is not there to impose its views but to teach and speak clearly”. (Times of Malta – 01.03.09) Expect the usual controversy when the confusion between church and state matters becomes a universal concern – even for those…

  David and Goliath (Who the f**k is Goliath?) Fellow blogger and regular guest-blogger David Friggieri has been caught in the crossfire in the war of  Astrid “The People” versus Daphne “The Blue Cuschieri”. It seems that David is destined to have quotes from his fine articles pulled slightly out of context (though this time…