Josanne Cassar | Yorgen Fenech

A disrupted conference, pointless hindsight and a slice of pizza

September 27, 2026 | No comments

It is clear that we need more than just street protests to shake this government from its complacency and its smug assumption that people will simply forget about the blatant corruption and move on. A protest will be “tolerated”, and afterwards those who made the effort to show up will go home and, no matter how angry they still are, they inevitably have to resume their lives.

Was it a ‘runaway jury’ or did the prosecution simply fail to prove its case?

September 13, 2026 | No comments

Hot on the heels of the “not guilty” verdict in the Yorgen Fenech trial which left (almost) everyone reeling and more conspiracy theories than you can shake your fist at, fresh news emerged which continue to stun an already shell-shocked nation.

A trial by jury; a trial by public opinion

September 6, 2026 | No comments

On Wednesday evening, I forgot my phone at home, which rarely happens. So when I first heard the news from the friends I was with, I thought surely that can’t be right. They showed me their phone and there it was, spelled out in black and white.

It is so hard for some people to accept the truth

August 10, 2026 | No comments

My Dad used to have a saying: once you tell a small lie you have to keep telling bigger and bigger lies to cover up the first one until you finally become so entangled in your fibs that you trip up.

No, it’s not because she is a woman, it’s because she is a Member of Parliament

March 27, 2023 | No comments

This column first appeared in Malta Today Now that everyone has had a chance to smirk, giggle and produce countless […]

Six degrees of Yorgen Fenech

November 3, 2020 | No comments

Some of you may have heard of the innovative board game created in 1994 by an enterprising group of college […]

Let the truth come out and let the chips fall as they may

December 2, 2019 | No comments

This column first appeared in Malta Today (written in the evening of Friday 29 November, prior to further developments over […]

This is not about red or blue. It’s about Malta’s future

November 29, 2019 | No comments

Pictured: Muscat on sweeping to victory in 2013 This column first appeared in Malta Today *update: since this was written […]

The only way forward is to remove Schembri and Mizzi now

November 22, 2019 | No comments

This column first appeared on Malta Today Over the last few weeks, the PM has been growing a beard, we […]

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