“The opportunism beggars belief.” Simon Busuttil, MEP commenting on the MEP election campaign on the Times of Malta. How’s that for an eye-opener? della serie J’accuse does a onenetmaltarightnowstar style “lift” P.S. That’s not what he...

According to reports from the island, the whole of Malta (and Gozo) is currently sans electrique. Smart Island does it again I guess. Which means that the number of readers of J’accuse is probably now down to one. Meanwhile elsewhere on the blogosphere J’accuse has been accused...

This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in The Malta Independent on Sunday. Dense and denser Turnout was low. Incredibly low. Notwithstanding heavy investment in a campaign that urged voters to use their prerogative to determine who will best represent them in Brussels, most voters...

Or why SuperOneJoseph is bad news…. a post by guest blogger Justin BB What Joseph Did Joseph Muscat won a huge majority. Well done to him. The choice of a number of candidates who are palatable to the middle class helped, but that was not the clincher. No, Muscat won so handily because...

Moviment Graffitti are organising a “Walk against racism” tomorrow evening. Here is an extract from the invitation I received: Paceville has long been a place where racism is the order of the day. The majority of clubs do not let black persons in and when these persons try to...

Φ 6. The Knaves with Knives Tribal dualism is what this EP election has reaffirmed in many ways. Never was it more strikingly obvious than when the breeding ground of nationalist gossipry decried “Staunch Nationalists don’t campaign for Labour“. And to think we bothered to...

Φ 5. The Joke A huge lesson that this election has definitely reaffirmed is that the notion of an ‘intelligent voter’ is a rarity. The trouble runs deeper. It is not only the ‘intelligent’ voter who is conspicuous in his absence but also the ‘informed’...

Φ 4. Counting Votes The agony and ecstasy in Naxxar has gone on for over two days and we are nowhere nearer having more than one directly elected candidate (Simon Says Busuttil). The preference votes should have jumped from red to blue to green to black like a drunken frog and there were...

Φ 3. The Agony Aunt Watching Jason Micallef on Bondi+ you could easily begin to tear the hair out of your head. One by one. Jason Micallef really believes that there is no problem for PL if they attract people to their fold simply “ghax imwegghin” (because they are hurt) even if...

Φ 2. The Internecine Warfare There’s cracks in the party and now it’s a show for everyone to see. The Nationalist party was not only the main party to suffer from this general vote of no confidence in the system. For the first time ever the cracks and faults within the flailing...

Φ 1. The “Earthquake” This is the first in a series of pill-sized reflections on the outcome of this year’s EP elections. We kick off with Joseph Muscat’s Labour and query their cause for celebration. The figures are such that would not justify any excessive...

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this evening that he viewed the result of the European Parliament elections as “worse than we wished for but better than expected.” Once the Labour euphoria of interpreting this result as a vote of no-confidence in the nationalist government has...