The Critical Angle project

24/07/2025

'...I don’t give a f**k about growing calls to recognise Palestinian statehood. There is no Palestinian state left to recognise.

I don’t give a f**k about the latest press release demanding a ceasefire. That ship has sailed now.

And last but not least, I truly do not give a f**k about politicians who continue to insist that abandoning millions of people to slaughter was the only call they could have made.

I hope all of you rot in whichever hell your ugly souls came from.'

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According to recent estimates, it will take around four decades to clear out the rubble in Gaza. Around 88% of physical infrastructure in the besieged enclave has been completely destroyed...

21/07/2025

'...people get the government they fight for. The Labour Party managed to sell off the whole country because they’ve worked at it like mad bastards. They had a plan to rob us all blind and they continue to fight bitterly every day to ensure they can keep stealing from us.

They are fighting you everyday. What are you going to do about it?'

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Well, well, well – here we are again. One good way of being able to tell general elections are somewhere around the corner is to look at the type, quality,...

17/07/2025

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The Labour Party’s headquarters rises out of Mile End road like a brutalist titan’s sore thumb. It does not attempt to smooth out its rough edges. One rectangle unapologetically follows...

14/07/2025

INVESTIGATION SUMMARY:

A synthesised highlight reel of three major investigations we published about the private healthcare sector in Malta.

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13/07/2025

INVESTIGATION:

'If you had some sort of replacement surgery at Mater Dei Hospital during the past decade or so, chances are that the artificial component used for your procedure may have been purchased from a company mired in corruption allegations...'

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If you had some sort of replacement surgery at Mater Dei Hospital during the past decade or so, chances are that the artificial component used for your procedure may have...

13/07/2025

INVESTIGATION:

To further understand the government’s level of dependence on private healthcare providers, we ran identical analyses of contracts awarded to major operators: St Thomas Hospital, St James Hospital, and Da Vinci Hospital.

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The government spent a total of at least €47 million on outsourcing services from three of Malta’s leading private healthcare operators since sweeping to power in 2013, an investigation carried...

11/07/2025

"There is no middle ground to be reached with a government that can glibly justify the reinstatement of a criminal individual by saying that the taxpayer will be getting more value for money (as opposed to leaving him suspended on half-pay), a few years after that same individual was declared responsible for the death of an innocent 20 year old man."

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If you’re a regular reader of this website, there’s a good chance that you were probably in Valletta on 17 July, 2023. In case you haven’t clocked the reference straight...

30/06/2025

'The fact is that the PN became increasingly isolationist in its approach over the years. It failed to grapple with the vast complexity of the world outside of its cumbersome network of interlocking committees and clubs. Refusing to let the world in is always a recipe for stagnation.'

It’s all very tragic, isn’t it? Mind you, I take no pleasure in such a severe diagnosis. In fact, I’ve dedicated quite a few column inches to what the Nationalist...

28/06/2025

FROM OUR ARCHIVES:

If you're still wondering how come June heat already feels like deadly mid-August in Malta, you should probably read our investigation from last year.

In retrospect, I think the climate data I reported in this article was too cautious in its interpretation. I think that the predictions made in this piece will come about much sooner than expected.

Still worth another read.

This investigation is part of a cooperation between The Critical Angle Project and CORRECTIV.Europe, a network for local journalism that implements data-driven and investigative research together with local newsrooms across...

27/06/2025

By the end of June, we will know the names of the contenders for the most important leadership election in the Nationalist Party's history.

So far, two candidates announced they will be contesting.

In our mini-series titled 'the verdict', we provided detailed deep dives about both of them.

Our goal was to come up with an answer to this question:

- Does the prospective leader have the necessary qualities to turn the Nationalist Party into a convincing alternative that can address the country’s systemic problems?

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26/06/2025

Our second analysis piece in our series about the Nationalist Party's leadership race.

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As the entire country waits with bated breath to see who will lead the Nationalist Party, it is currently every local journalist’s duty to dig up every relevant detail they...

25/06/2025

In light of the Nationalist Party's existential leadership race, I felt it was my responsibility as a journalist to provide a thorough assessment of the status and fitness of each candidate.

Loosely grouped under the working title 'the verdict', this article about Adrian Delia is the first of this mini-series. I will be following up with similar articles about all other prospective leadership candidates.

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As the entire country waits with bated breath to see who will lead the Nationalist Party, it is currently every local journalist’s duty to dig up every relevant detail they...