If you’ve tuned in to this blog on Saturday morning (27/11) between 9 and 10 am then you would do well to turn on, tune in and cop out. J’accuse goes live on Andrew Azzopardi’s talk show on Radju Malta at this very instant. Together with other guest speakers Alex Grech and...
Coke: Cheaper for th...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
More baffling info from the newsdesks. In case the junkies and addicts of this world were not up to scratch on the latest Drug Price Index, MaltaToday gallantly informed its readers that the street price of cocaine has gone down. To be honest I’d be worried if they knew of any other...
Salaries and Salary ...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
In times of recession it is inevitable that the issue of wages and salaries bounce to the forefront of the news. Whether it is the Italian Footballer’s Association and its negotiations for a collective contract (a uniform style contract) or whether it is politicians and their...
Saudade
posted by Jacques René Zammit
There are days when I miss my hometown. This would not be one of them. spread the word:TweetEmailPrintMoreLike this:Like...
There's somethi...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
The gaps between macro-economics, micro-economics and home economics are rarely bridged in your average person’s daily thinking. Given the worry about his wages, his electricity bill, his cable football subscription and the extra little entertainment money on the one hand and the Irish...
My Cousin Bondi
posted by Jacques René Zammit
This is a tale of two cousins. One is a self-professed journalist who has a time slot on national television the other is a thatcherite minister in the Maltese government. J’accuse does not normally take to the “pink” style references of familial links and the like but this...
Ingriterra
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Take a quick tour of the written and spoken media on the Maltese islands and you notice that such linguistic delicacies as “dutchboard” and “spartan plug” (dashboard and sparking plug) are not exclusive to the stereotypical “hamallu” that first springs to...
Gonzi Condemns Plate...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Prime Minister Gonzi’s letter to the Times is a rarity by local political terms. It takes quite a provocation for a PM to put pen to paper and express his thoughts in a letters page on one of the local rags. Foreign leaders are wont to this kind of behaviour although more often than not...
Inconvenient Strikes
posted by Jacques René Zammit
More confused reporting. The Times. Again. This time they report Pulse – a student organisation. I am left wondering whether Pulse got partially quoted or whether Pulse are plain stupid. The subject matter is a very specific ATP strike – a transport strike. The ATP chose to strike...
I Love Joseph
posted by Jacques René Zammit
Who’s who? Here’s a comparative set of pics. One of Joseph Muscat from therealbudget.com and one of Malta’s great tenor Joseph Calleja. Who’s been a naughty photoshopper now? spread the word:TweetEmailPrintMoreLike this:Like Loading...
i
posted by Jacques René Zammit
You’ve got to love it. I hope the consumers love it. It’s the Independent (UK)’s new offshoot paper called simply “i”. Launched today and costing just 20p per copy it is aimed at what the newspaper is calling “time-poor” people. The trademark of the...
Reporters Sans Front...
posted by Jacques René Zammit
NGO Reporters Sans Frontières has released the 2010 Press Freedom Index. You can find this index by clicking here. Surprisingly, given the weird goings on in the field of censorship in the island over the past year, Malta’s performance is quite good. It features in the 14th place...