The Unholy War: a five-part series on Malta’s Interdett – Part 1
First of a MaltaToday series on the January 1961 Church Interdett, first published in MaltaToday in 2005
17 April 2021, 5:34pm
by Michaela Muscat
In January 1961, the diocesan commission issued a circular which was read out in all churches condemning the MLP’s affiliation with the Socialist International and the Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organisation. In a bid to wield its power over the god-fearing masses, it declared a sin the reading of Labour newspapers and the attendance of MLP meetings.
The events of the sixties would re-carve Maltese society as Gonzi’s ‘holy soldiers’ battled Mintoff’s ‘evil’ ‘soldiers of steel’ (suldati ta’ l-azzar), the total number of people who had voted in favour of Labour’s proposal for integration of the Maltese islands with the United Kingdom.
Yet another self-hating bigot exploiting the right to self-expression
The Skinny • No. 73 – In Jerusalem, Apparently
9 February 2021, 8:49am
Matthew Grech in full flow
What are we skinning? Gay conversion therapy advocate and River of Love congregant Matthew Grech’s latest lockdown-dancefloor thumper, ‘F’Gerusalemma’.
Why are we skinning it? Both because it gave us a long-overdue slice of cringe entertainment - revisiting admittedly evergreen early Clinton Paul classics gets a bit old after a while - and because it catapulted the infuriatingly contentious figure of Matthew Grech back on the social media merry-go-round.
So what’s up with this guy? To put it bluntly and succinctly, he is arguably one of the best walking examples of the adage that ‘youth is wasted on the young’.