The Critical Angle project

28/07/2024

Someone tried to delist my post sharing the commentary piece I published on Saturday.

According to Meta, it was reported for referring to graphic violence, something which is obviously untrue.

It would be a real shame if this post led to even more reactions and engagement with that article.

27/07/2024

"This interview is not what journalism looks like, and I hate the fact that every time one of us does this kind of interview, we are all dragged down into this abyss of public ridicule.

Anyone with at least two brain cells can see that this was a scripted walk in the park, and anyone with at least four of those will be inevitably wondering what the interviewer is actually getting out of it. Answers to real questions certainly isn’t the order of business here, so what is it?"

Let me be very clear. I am not writing this column in the spirit of an upstart crow. My aim isn’t to take others down so I can carve a...

25/07/2024

Our project partner, Michael Kaden from NEWZ.mt, with his take on Edward Scicluna's infuriating decision to remain in office.

We've all been glued to our seats, watching the latest developments in Labour's Malta. But there's this guy who missed that one last call to get up his ass and resign

25/07/2024

EN:

'Today, everyone is talking about just how much of a coward Edward Scicluna is.

Yesterday, we were reporting live to show you just that after getting cooked by the sun for two hours. All this, simply because the governor of the Central Bank of Malta is a coward.

He is not a coward simply because he is so unable to face criticism that he spent two hours lingering in court hoping to avoid journalists.

He wanted to avoid this confrontation so much that he told his driver to keep an eye on us from around the corner with the intent of bringing a van around whenever we leave our post, from the same side where prisoners are usually escorted to court.

He is a coward because his legacy as a public official consists of a history of using legalisms to cover up his own cowardice.

This is what he is doing in response to the unanimous calls for his resignation, this is what he did when we called for his resignation as finance minister, and this is what he will keep doing until we kick him out once and for all.

If you haven't seen it yet, watch yesterday's video so you can truly understand what they are trying to do with the hospitals concession case, so you can really understand just how low we've stooped.

It is time to start chopping branches off again, just like what we'd done when, one by one - the police commissioner, the attorney general, ministers for the economy, health, energy, and then even a prime minister and his former chief of staff - we put down the first version of this government that prostitutes our country and gives birth to monsters in the process.'

Link to yesterday's special report: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/iXGHD8gMwN6dBYgM/

24/07/2024

RAPPORT SPEĊJALI: sommarju tal-aħħar xahrejn li qattajna l-Qorti. Ara hawn taħt 👇

Miġjub lilkom b’kollaborazzjoni ma' NEWZ.mt.

24/07/2024

Julian Delia reports live as the Court is to decree on the prime facie evidence against Chris Fearne, Edward Scicluna and the co-accused

20/07/2024

Well - what's it going to take?

This time last year, 80 people died in the span of just ten days as a result of excess heat stress caused by a major heatwave. This year, we are...

20/07/2024

No, we're not a satire page.
And this is not funny anymore.

19/07/2024

"Fortunately for us, civil society is renewable - corruption isn't."

I know that you may be tired of hearing me harp on about the hospitals concession case by now. I guess that, as a journalist, I feel responsible for ensuring...

18/07/2024

Earlier today, several of Malta's most prominent NGOs called on prime minister Robert Abela to initiate a public inquiry about the social benefits racket amid allegations of a cover-up.

Watch their press conference for all the details.

18/07/2024

18/07/2024

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation is publishing a series of helpful, informative posts about the hospitals concession case.

Go check them out if you haven't already.

17/07/2024

Watch our summary of today’s court hearing in the case of the fraudulent hospitals concession.

You can also read our live blog here: https://newz.mt/live-vitals-case-day-15/

Produced in collaboration with NEWZ.mt

17/07/2024

Julian Delia reports live from Hall 22

17/07/2024

"If you had to take prime minister Robert Abela’s word for it, you would think the Labour Party is made up of our very best and brightest..."

If you had to take prime minister Robert Abela’s word for it, you would think the Labour Party is made up of our very best and brightest. After his government...

16/07/2024

Watch our summary of today’s court hearing in the case of the fraudulent hospitals concession.

You can also read our live blog here: https://newz.mt/live-vitals-case-day-14/

Produced in collaboration with NEWZ.mt

16/07/2024

Julian Delia reports live from Hall 22

14/07/2024

"To make room for belief in the possibility of a better future, we must first clear out the doubts we’ve had about everything we’ve been doing up until the present."

I wonder how many of this website’s readers were present at the Panama Papers protest in 2016. I was 21 at the time. I hardly knew anything about offshore companies....

11/07/2024

Watch our summary of today’s court hearing in the case of the fraudulent hospitals concession.

You can also read our live blog here: https://newz.mt/live-vitals-case-day-13/

Produced in collaboration with NEWZ.mt.

11/07/2024

Julian Delia reports live from Hall 22

10/07/2024

Watch our summary of today’s court hearing in the case of the fraudulent hospitals concession.

You can also read our live blog here: https://newz.mt/vitals-case-10-july/

Produced in collaboration with NEWZ.mt.

10/07/2024

Julian Delia reports live from Hall 22

10/07/2024

'If Fearne wants to be exonerated from his sins, misleading, half-assed statements aren’t going to cut it.'

You know it’s an interesting time to be a political observer when you get to witness events that obliterate the smugness of politicians who previously thought they were untouchable. In...

09/07/2024

Facebook's algorithms seem to be punishing the page's reach because I had the audacity to take some time off from the relentless content grind.

I'm also informed that self-deprecation is very much in vogue and there is nothing that algorithms enjoy more than whatever is considered fashionable.

So, help me hit two birds with one particularly cynical stone by reacting to this post and commenting below with your pick.

What's the ultimate court reporter look?

Will it be the ambitious, mean, lean, Goldman Sachs intern? Suspiciously chill cocktail lounge bartender? Potential crypto scammer who will definitely *NOT* p**s away your savings? Or classic drunk guy at a wedding who also lost his tie?

08/07/2024

Watch our summary of today’s court hearing in the case of the fraudulent hospitals concession.

You can also read our live blog here: https://newz.mt/live-blog-vitals-case/

Produced in collaboration with NEWZ.mt.

08/07/2024

Rejecting the defence's arguments, the court has confirmed the appointment of experts in the Vitals magisterial inquiry

08/07/2024

Today's hearing in the hospitals concession case starts in a few minutes.

Stay tuned for updates throughout the day and the rest of the week.

We're back in business.

01/07/2024

- READER UPDATE -

Due to circumstances of a personal nature, I regret to inform this website's followers that I need to shut down our production schedule for the week.

While I reserve my right to a measure of privacy given the personal nature of the situation, I would like to reassure everyone that I aim to be back at my post by next Monday. I will keep everyone up to date should there be any other changes.

For now, I'd simply like to underline the fact that I would not have taken this decision unless I had to and that this project will remain an absolute priority once I am able to resume my work.

Thank you for your support and for your ongoing interest in this project.

30/06/2024

In turn, is demonstrating contempt for the law in protest of an illegitimate, morally bankrupt government ethically justifiable?

A dilemma lies at the heart of every direct action – is breaching the law in the name of safeguarding fundamental human rights justifiable? Well, like the answer to practically...

29/06/2024

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