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10/01/2026

From Iraq to Kabul and from foreign battlefields to American streets the United States has drifted from law to force. This post traces how post Cold War hubris 9/11 trauma and Trump era doctrines have hollowed out the rule based order leaving the free world leaderless and at risk.

From Iraq to Kabul and from foreign battlefields to American streets the United States has drifted from law to force. This post traces how post Cold War hubris 9/11 trauma and Trump era doctrines ...

01/04/2025

Repubblika The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation

Tuesday's protest outside parliament is all about challenging Bill 125. Repubblika has already registered a court protest against the bill, showing a clear intention to use all legal avenues to stop ...

03/12/2024

Testing Buffer posting in our fast-paced digital world! Are you juggling multiple social media platforms too? Like this if a social media manager is your go-to tool!

19/10/2024

While Malta is eager to back the controversial 'return hubs' in the EU such as the one Italy has set up in Albania, a recent ECJ judgment seems to have slowed down these plans. The problem lies with the designation of safe countries - is the country an asylum seeker is coming from considered to be safe or not by the receiving state?

The ECJ has clearly stated that a Member State cannot partially designate a third country as safe. It is either totally safe or it is not. You cannot have an exception with particular regions of that country. Italian Magistrates have clashed with the government over the safe country designation of Egypt and Bangladesh.

16/10/2024

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16/10/2024

The Birth of a Blog. A post written 3 days and 6 hours after the assassination.

[3 days 6 hours] The 2008 election campaign was the first one to feature blogs heavily. The Maltese blogosphere had only just really kicked off and most times it was a case of blogs being ...

15/10/2024

Joseph Muscat’s government had been in power for 1682 days on the day Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated. That’s 4 years, 7 months and 7 days. On the last of those 4 years, 7 months and 7 days Daphne Caruana Galizia would write those fatal words that are now part of the history of this nation. “The crooks are everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.”

J'accuse

Joseph Muscat's government had been in power for 1682 days on the day Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated. That's 4 years, 7 months and 7 days. On the last of those 4 years, 7 months and ...

09/08/2024

Notes from a forgotten blog, many many years ago (11 to be exact). Abulafia had predicted the “kullhadd jithanzer” long before Rosiane hit the scene.

In an op article on the International Herald Tribune Salman Rushdie recently lamented that there no longer are any politicians who have the courage to take important decisions. More importantly Rus…

07/08/2024

All this talk about Identity Card Fraud reminded me of my case almost ten years back.

  I am the owner of a flat in Saint Julian’s - Paceville to be exact. For some time now I have known that I share the address of this flat with over fifty individuals who I have never met ...

11/06/2024

Part one of my take on the EP elections.

All eyes on Sunday were fixed on ‘the Gap’. As the day wore on, the size of ‘the gap’ between the votes garnered by representatives of Malta’s major parties shrunk from 23,000 at the start of the day to around 8,000. Early analysis of the numbers was predictably simplistic and opportunisti...