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It’s amazing what time can do but it’s just great sitting back and watching the ripple effect of Labour’s latest appointment. J’accuse would like to point its readers to Marie Benoit’s hilarious article penned in the aftermath of the 2004 Labour “electoral” victory. The article is called “the unbearable heaviness of being Marisa” (22nd June…
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While David Casa was busy crafting mysterious articles about the European Union’s answers to the financial crisis, the big news in Malta was that ex-PN darling and ex-Housing Authority Chairman Marisa Micallef (ex-Leyson) had been appointed consultant/press-officer to Joseph “Decision-maker” Muscat to the tune of €40,000 euros. The news spread like wildfire after it broke…
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Be honest. How many of you have googled David Casa’s article in today’s Independent? At the risk of becoming a right royal pain in the arse… we did. Interesting results really. Before we tell you what we found out it is important to remind readers why we are kicking up such a fuss. It’s not…
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There’s an appalling letter in today’s Times of Malta signed off “Marisa Micallef – London, UK”. I am not sure if this is not the same Marisa Micallef who is currently the toast of opinion columnists and journalists alike (along with Jason Micallef and, to a lesser extent Claudio Grech) for having created newsworthy material…
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David Casa’s favourite journalist at the Guardian describes Angela Merkel as “Non-ideological, centrist, eschewing confrontation” and “non-partisan” to boot. Ian Traynor’s analysis on Merkel’s electoral victory last night (Merkel persuades Germans she is people’s chancellor, but result leaves her vulnerable) concludes that the second weakest result for the CDU menas that Angela Merkel is now…
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This article and accompanying Bertoon (click image to enlarge) appear in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. This week we start with the plaudits. Antoine Cassar, former blogger and current poet has won the Grand Prize in the United Planet Writing Contest 2009. It’s a great achievement for the man who I got…