Category: Politics
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The Foreign Legion
There’s no two ways about this. Tackling the effects of the coronavirus pandemic requires a particularly well-honed toolset that is fully integrated with the global realities of today’s world. The by-now standard reaction in any nation wanting to brace itself and mitigate the impact of the virus is the dreaded lockdown. The nature of the…
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Vigil: justice for Daphne
Speech delivered at Vigil for Justice for Daphne. 16th November 2019. First, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers. L-ewwel ma nagħmlu, ejja noqtolu l-avukati kollha. Xi ħsieb dak eh? Ħsieb li jxewwex il-massa. Huwa ħsieb li jmiss xi ħaġa fil-fond ta’ kull wieħed u waħda minnkom, anki jekk forsi ma tkunux lesti tammettu. X’qed ngħid? Probabbli…
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The People vs the Government of Malta
Last night, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted overwhelmingly to approve a report on Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination and the state of the rule of law in Malta. The resolution listed a series of “serious concerns” over the investigation into the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, and demanded the setting…
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Parliament Strikes Back
Speaker Bercow stood up and made a statement. He did so from his position within an old and respectable institution and what he said was firmly embedded and rooted in tradition. It was not tradition for the sake of tradition but rather the kind of tradition that forms part of an ongoing process of institutional…
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Unpopular Representation
“(An MP) his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. … Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion” –…
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Public Cleansing, memorials and humanity
Last Friday (the 4th of January) the vice-mayor of the Italian city of Trieste put up a post on Facebook in which he explained that while walking through one of the streets of the city he had come across a pile of covers, jackets and other similar stuff. “Since there was nobody around”, he posted,…