The “Christmas Truce” has gone up in ashes with a Ho! Ho! Ho! and without so much as a by your leave. It was obvious from the start (as we had predicted) that the two parties would be unable to contain the inertia of the electoral swing. The 9th of March has a gravitational pull of...
L-aħħar tad-dinja
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Hemm rokna f’Paceville fejn bosta jaħilfu li raw l-aħħar tad-dinja. M’hijiex eżattament l-istess tip ta’ rokna bħal dik ta’ Adams fejn wieħed seta jitpaxxa bil-bidu u tmiem l-univers ad eternum waqt li jordna steak biċ-ċips fir-ristorant f’tarf l-univers....
Questions of Bias II
posted by Jacques René Zammit
The other issue relating to bias presented itself fittingly just as I was being discharged from my one-day stay in hospital. The one and only guest on Where’s Everybody’s TVHEMM was the indefatigable Franco Debono. Franco’s interlocutor on the programme would be the usual...
Questions on bias I
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Anglu and Audrey Yesterday was a day in the sign of bias. I got an early taste of what was to be when I skimmed through the Times while waiting for my meeting with dentist and anaesthetist at the crack of dawn in hospital. The right side of the paper was dominated by the headline of Anglu...
That inexistent oppo...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Anglu Farrugia’s smile should haunt Labour diehards for years to come. I say should because I am convinced that they are probably in the throes of jubilation and singing his praises at how his performance far outshone that of Simon Busuttil. Unfortunately it is only those blinded by the...