Editorial : Abandoned by Their Own – How the Caruana Galizias Lost the Room

For years, the Caruana Galizia name was a fortress — immune to criticism, elevated by martyrdom, and weaponised by an elite circle of activists, journalists, and political operatives. To question them was heresy. To disagree meant exile. And to oppose them publicly? Political suicide.

But times have changed.

The war now playing out between European Parliament President Roberta Metsola and Matthew Caruana Galizia is not a clash of values — it is the final act of a once-untouchable dynasty losing its grip on power, influence, and narrative control.

Matthew’s attack on Metsola was not about Gaza. It was a carefully disguised tantrum over a far deeper wound: Metsola’s betrayal of his mother’s legacy, particularly her vendetta against Adrian Delia. The fact that Malta’s most powerful political export — Roberta Metsola — now openly supports the very man Daphne demonised, has shattered the myth of moral infallibility the Caruana Galizia family tried to preserve.

This isn’t just a public feud. It is a political divorce. And like all divorces among elites, it reveals what many suspected but few dared say: the Caruana Galizia clan demanded unwavering loyalty, but gave none in return. They built their house on outrage, but never learned how to cope with irrelevance.

Now, as former allies defect, as loyalists go silent, and as even figures like Manwel Delia begin to pivot toward new alliances, Matthew is discovering the true price of absolutism — isolation.

The rage is growing louder, but fewer are listening. And that, ultimately, is the Caruana Galizia family’s greatest loss: not political power, but cultural authority. The ability to dictate the national conversation — gone.

Roberta Metsola may have driven the final nail, but the coffin was already built by years of arrogance, bitterness, and the refusal to accept that Malta has moved on.

Let history record this not as a clash between principle and betrayal — but as the inevitable downfall of a clique that believed it was untouchable.