Once Malta’s most powerful prime minister since Independence — and now its first politician to face criminal charges.

A season for everything, my mother’s favourite text says. timesofmalta.com/article/6-vita…

“Consequently, we find ourselves with a decimated system of checks and balances, with henchmen occupying top posts, leaving the judiciary and the media as the only guardians of democracy.” timesofmalta.com/article/editor…

🧵1⃣Last year, we launched the first in a series of investigations we're supporting with research and investigation coordination: a deep dive into the financial flows in the Malta hospitals privatisation deal. Revisit reporting by our project partners ⬇️
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Mostly today I am thinking about that Maltese woman who refused to back down. The mother who stood up. The daughter they could not silence. The sister who exposed the truth.

Remember Daphne Caruana Galizia tonight. She deserved better than we gave her.

Next: justice

💸 – Want to know how to hold the rich and powerful to account? Join us this Thursday to find out how.

Speakers: Foxglove director Martha Dark, Tortoise's Paul Caruana Galizia, and GMB Union activist Garfield Hylton.

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In Malta, a major judicial inquiry into a fraudulent €2.1-billion hospital privatisation has concluded.

Disgraced former prime minister Joseph Muscat, who's been accused of illegally profiting from the deal, has tried to block, suspend, and discredit the inquiry.

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What a shame to see our prime minister slandering a judge, treating the judiciary like - because it's rightly investigating the criminality within his party - it's a political party. timesofmalta.com/article/pm-acc…

If you're in Chipping Camden on 6th May, please come hear Lindsay Mackie and me talk about A Death in Malta?
Chipping Campden Literature Festival
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“I wrote this book because I felt my mother’s murder was becoming bigger than her life”

Hurrah to Paul Caruana Galizia on winning the Cornelius Ryan Prize for Best Non Fiction Book on International Affairs with A DEATH IN MALTA in New York last night at the Overseas Press Awards

Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

EXCL: Working in London is ‘like being in a war zone’ for Iranians, as threats from Iran intensify.

An ex-minister has suggested the UK could cut diplomatic ties with the state so that the IRGC can be proscribed LBC

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Delighted to hear Paul Caruana Galizia Tortoise & Antonia Cundy Madison Marriage Financial Times won the ‘Scoop of the Year’ award #ThePressAwards last night, for their Crispin Odey investigation. So well deserved.

Crispin Odey story with Antonia Cundy and Madison Marriage won Scoop of the Year and was highly commended for Investigation of the Year at the Press Awards last night. But no prizes for this photo.

“A Death in Malta examines the dark side of an island beloved by tourists, and explores how the globalisation of corruption has damaged a modern European country…It’s also a son’s tender tribute to his mother.” ⁦Lucy Popescu⁩ for the Camden New Journal camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/dead-r…

For those interested in press freedom do come and listen to Paul Caruana Galizia and myself discuss his book, mother and the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation either in Perugia or online at midday tomorrow #ijf24

UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 Columbia University At the event’s book conversation at Columbia University we will host prominent journalists and tireless activists Elena Kostyuchenko, author of I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country & Paul Caruana Galizia author of A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family’s Quest for Justice.