Gode di Immunità Ecclesiastica The sponsors of the anti-divorce billboard erected by the Zebbug Parish are performing all sorts of cartwheels in order to make it clear that they are actually fence-sitters of the prime order and are neither for or against divorce. I guess it is important to...

The Holocaust Denier, the Creationist and other Twits Normal Lowell has struck again. The inveterate hardliner has written a letter to the Malta Independent on Sunday in reply to a previous article about Auschwitz (Reflections on Auschwitz. My personal experience). Now Lowell being a very good...

On our first walkabout in NY still fresh from the transatlantic flight led us straight to the glimmering lights of Times Square at around four in the afternoon.  The sun was out in all its splendour and the square was readying for an invasion of the “Beautiful Game” with many of...

The Banana Republic Files. In today’s Times we find the report that “At the start of yesterday evening’s sitting of Parliament, the Speaker gave a written answer to a question by Nationalist MP Franco Debono on progress in talks on the financing of political parties, which...

Tirritorna ir-rubrika Kinnie & Twistees fuq j’accuse (ghax iddum inqas ittellaghha hawn milli toqghod ittella’ ohra fil-blogg l-iehor). Erba’ kelmiet bejn haga ohra dwar dak li qed jigri go Lussemburgu, gewwa Malta u fl-Ewropa. K&T – ikel u xorb ghal...

Lettere da Alfonso Terzoli a Beppe Severgnini. Il perchè dell’antipaticità degl’inter-cettati. And someone please tell “pacliequ” Bondi how to spell “abbiamo”. Ich bin ein bayerischer! Egr.dottor Severgnini, La leggo da tanto tempo e quando non parla...

If it’s in the game… it’s in the album. (with apologies to Nicola Legrottaglie, Ronaldinho, Cambiasso and Zanetti). Thank you Dunga. 13 . 24 . 34 . 35 . 38 . 39 . 40 . 41 . 58 . 60 . 67 . 70 . 71 . 75 . 77 . 87 . 91 . 92 . 93 . 110 . 111 . 116 . 137 . 139 . 147 . 166 . 171 ....

Fausto Majistral’s latest zolabyte tackles the legal problems that the organisers of the stopprojectpiano referendum campaign might not have considered yet. It was inevitable that an issue as political as the Valletta entrance (use of public space is politics par excellence) would not...

I might be mistaken, and it might be a namesake but it might also be the case that an old hero of J’accuse – subject of many an early an edition – has just made a brief reappearance on the pages of the Times. Back in the days when Facebook was not around to provide the panem...

We’ve been busy (and finishing off Robert Harris’ Lustrum in our spare time) so we have not had much time to bl*g these days. Here’s a taster of things to come on the net and on the paper this weekend. It’s hot at Uni what with the KSU elections approaching and yours...

Il picchiatore fascista. Il libero picchiatore. Plategate. Dawramejt. Jonathan Zebina. 1. Picchiatore fascista That the phenomenon of journalistic “aggression” was a result of Camillo and Peppone politics was already a known fact. Last week it was the turn of the nationalist...

One of J’accuse’s best known rubriques returns to haunt the readers. What is worse than a dose of heavy pills after a days’ work? I.M. Jack. PLUS look out for www.akkuza.com coming soon on your nearest web browser. 1. When Harry met Dalli Those moaning greens never know when...