A Little Welcome & Introduction

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Dear reader,

Firstly, I would like to thank you for stopping by. This blog is a project for university, but I hope that it will provide you with food for thought, too. I will be writing my thoughts on politics in general, though my main focus will be press freedom and free speech, which I feel need to be discussed more.

I’ve named this blog after my aunt Daphne Caruana Galizia’s first newspaper column, which focused on current affairs and politics. That was long before she started her blog and began some of her most prominent investigative work.

Daphne was assassinated in Malta by a bomb placed in her car on 16th October 2017. The mastermind is as yet unknown. She is still vilified, in attempt at discrediting her stories, as she was all throughout her thirty years of writing. She never gave in, despite the constant harassment and intimidation by the government, the Opposition and others, and fought courageously up until the moment she was killed.

This blog is not here to replace Daphne. It is a tribute to her, her courage, and her desire to fight for the beauty and freedom in the world that is being taken away by evil and greed.

If you take anything away from reading my blog, let it be the willingness to discuss and spread awareness of the dangers present in our world. And as Daphne once wrote, 'never give in to authority just because it is authority'.

Megan




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