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In colonial Malta, the award of a Rhodes scholarship to a hostile anti-British student was unlikely to happen. Dom Mintoff, on the basis of his suitability, was granted such a scholarship and proceeded successfully to Oxford, consolidating a strong affinity with the colonial masters. This pro-British sympathy of Mintoff was further nurtured through having an English wife. Does this imply that Mintoff’s British leanings came at the expense of his love for Malta? Of course not, it probably was much more of a personal conviction that the interests of the Maltese would best be served through having the island submit itself to total integration with Britain. It may be inferred that Mintoff considered tiny Malta unable to survive as an independent state and responsibly govern itself. ....
A general election is imminent. Labour has launched an English language news portal and dishing out direct orders like there’s no tomorrow. The electorate faces one critical question: can Labour be trusted with a third term? Third terms spell disaster for the political party, subsequently condemned to years in the wilderness. But it is the country and its citizens who bear the deep-creased scars of third terms. On the eve of the 1981 election, Dom Mintoff appointed Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici leader designate. Mifsud Bonnici orchestrated Labour’s campaign. Labour lost the popular vote but retained its majority in parliament through gerrymandering and, as a result, retained power, defying the people’s will. ....
Malta, as some funny guys keep reminding us, is a unique place. Every time we reach what we think is the real bottom of the trough, we dig a few more endless holes of perfidy. Yet, the people, the Joes, Carmens and Frankies of the isle seem happy. Quite, quite happy with the state of affairs of state. They keep trusting good old Robert Abela just as they would trust a revived Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or Abe Lincoln. I won’t dare add on a local politician of old – say Pawlu Boffa or Eddie Fenech Adami – lest I am accused of fanning the tribal fire that we suffer from in Malta. ....
Sant memoirs: Mintoff’s watery stew, cheap plonk, and his Gang of Four Alfred Sant’s political tell-all casts a ruthless eye on Dom Mintoff and his confidants, a much-needed sober view of the man Labour loved before he brought down the house in 1998 15 April 2021, 7:19am by Matthew Vella Bertie Mizzi’s wisdom is solicited by Dom Mintoff, standing next to his works minister Lorry Sant In Alfred Sant’s tell-all on the 1980s, the novelist’s keen eye for detail generously embellishes the mundane world of a political era that few people had access to, or even read about in the staid press of yesteryear. ....
It’s all going Abela’s way. and he knows it To consistently urge Robert Abela to ‘denounce the Joseph Muscat legacy’ – as so many people (not just the Opposition) are so unwisely doing – is actually to do Robert Abela, and Labour in general, a huge political favour Raphael Vassallo 6 April 2021, 7:33am Judging by the comments underneath the article, I am evidently not the only one who was struck by the Prime Minister’s nonchalant composure during that Saviour Balzan interview on Xtra this week. Honestly, though: who would ever guess, from his performance last Thursday, that Robert Abela’s government has been rocked by a series of monumental scandals in recent weeks: including the arrest and imprisonment of former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri… the public confirmation that so many of those previous ‘allegations’ were, in fact, perfectly true… and, much more damningly, a spate of renewed allegations that members of the Labour governme ....