A Death in Malta by Paul Caruana Galizia review – courage under fire

Journalism.

• John Simpson
• The Guardian

So is outing hapless celebrities over their sex lives, or researching long-form pieces about the future of the NHS.

And so is sacrificing your life to warn people that their country has been taken over by gangsters. Daphne Caruana Galizia was this sort of journalist: one of the most courageous and outspoken people of our age.

Here’s one of the last things she ever wrote about the Maltese government, in October 2017:

“Do your worst, you bastards, until the only option left to you is to take out a…

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