Category: Politics
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Untrustworthy. Unfit for purpose.
Matthew Vella did a good job grilling Konrad Mizzi about his “financial structure” based in New Zealand and Panama. ‘It’s a free world. Everyone can choose whatever they wish and should seek advice on what is best for them’ – that is the clip that Matthew Vella chose to put in the headline (at…
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Stifling Debate
‘The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum….’ Noam Chomsky, The Common Good Marelene Farrugia posted this quote on Facebook last week and I find it very apt to describe what is going on in Malta right now.…
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The Conversion Conversation
This weekend’s controversy is all about “conversion”. It must have been the proximity of the feast of Saint Paul. Just to put you in the bigger picture the government published on the 15th of December a draft law that aims “to prohibit conversion therapy as a deceptive act or practice against a person’s sexual orientation,…
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Unmeritocracy, Undemocracy
So it turns out that Mario Philip Azzopardi is not the most congenial person to work with. And that, it seems, is putting it mildly. It is ironic that of all the “meritocratic” appointments under the present government it is Azzopardi who joins the magisterial nominees in the eye of the storm(s) currently being whipped up.…
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The wrong sort of talisman
Steel at the Orpheum That night at the Orpheum Joseph Muscat had gathered the party diehards into a mental and physical fortress. The theatre named after a Greek mythical figure who had ended up dealing with the god of the underworld had a talismanic hold on the hardcore labourites. This was Macina-style territory where the…
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Saving Daphne’s Privates
Gaffarena Gate has been the black hole of news and information over the past week or so. Anything else newsworthy was sucked into the vortex of the spinning black hole of Falzon’s resignation, Muscat’s double-speak on governance and the n-th celebration of disgraced politicians by a Labour mass meeting. Patriots and pork only just made…