Aħna li ngħixu il-bogħod minn xtut gżiritna inbagħtu l-iktar mill-bard u kesħa li taffliġġi l-ambjenti illi naħdmu fihom tmenin fil-mija tas-sena. Filgħodu naraw it-tbassir tat-temp b’għajnejna jaqgħu l-ewwel fuq it-termometru u imbagħad inqabblu malajr malajr mat-temp...
Talk is cheap
posted by Jacques René Zammit
The reports from Malta are beginning to make the island sound like Italy in the famous “anni di piombo” – only that stabbing, and not shooting, seems to be the preferred form of violence in 1/3 of the cases reported in the last three days. Sadly all the victims were of the...
Those Lazy Parliamen...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
For a while I too had got caught in the whole spin business about “our lazy parliamentarians who have delayed the end of summer recess unashamedly”. Having rightly sussed the nationalist ploy to survive to the start of the recess and then hopefully plot the end of Franco over the...
Wiċċ taz-zokkor u pr...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Il-Membru Parlamentari Ewropew Nazzjonalista Simon Busuttil bħalissa bieżel ifakkar lill-kostitwenti tiegħu illi għadu kif ingħata premju bħala wieħed mill-Membri Parlamentari tas-Sena. Fil-każ tiegħu il-premju ingħata fil-qasam tas-saħħa, mid-dehra bħala rikonoxximent ta’...
Self-aggrandisement
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Blowing your own trumpet. Over-selling yourself. &c. &c. As though it is not enough that your average voter is kept completely in the dark as to the actual content of the plans for government from the two major parties (barring of course a hermeneutic roadmap or other) he also has to...