It’s Sunday morning and the nationalist party is gearing up for what it dubs a national protest against corruption. The Sunday papers are full to the brim with opinion articles, spin and (if you look really hard) factual reports about the issue that has a name: Panamagate. Over the week...
Untrustworthy. Unfit...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
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...
Ignorance of the Law
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Muscat and his Panama collective are not getting on too well with the press right now. Unless you ask the right questions you will be faced with a barrage of childish word play and incosequential “answers” that are anything but. When none of the stonewalling and feigned...
Stifling Debate
posted by Jacques René Zammit
‘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...
The Conversion Conve...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
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...