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  • J'accuse: Signs of Times

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    This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. If I had to engage in a silly exercise of anthropomorphising months – ascribing human features to months – I believe that September would have much to say about the way she has been treated. It has to be a…

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  • Most Flaws of Perception

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    J’accuse cannot comment on the news of the day that comes straight from our place of daytime work and that will surely be the subject of many a discussion. The Times of Malta will definitely not be the last paper to misinterpret the court’s decision but it will be up to other legal brains to…

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  • No Comment

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    Times online breaking news posted this morning. Title: Blow for Malta as EU heads for bluefin tuna trade ban. First Comment to be posted beneath article: E Vella:  Let’s go out of the EU

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  • Anche il Bongiorno ha il suo tramonto

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    Mike Bongiorno, TV presenter was as old as the medium that he came to symbolize. The man who is an integral part of the history of television in Italy has passed away today at the age of 85 in the French city of Montecarlo. I owe Mike my reverential love for quizzes ever since I…

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  • I.M. Jack (he's back, he's back)

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    We’re back with the round up that causes minor sensations and draws this blog closer (or farther) to (or from) its continental and intercontinental counterparts. It’s been a long, drawn out, heavy summer that once again threatened to shoot blogs and blogging into oblivion as most people preferred the cool of the sea to the…

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  • More on Floating Turbines (Hywind)

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    BBC have a news item about the floating turbines I mentioned in this week’s Indy article. Click here to see the BBC media player presentation – do note how Norwegians speaking English tend to sound like the good old Texas Instrument’s Speak & Spell (emulator here).

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