And The Times and The Independent and Maltarightnow … the list is endless.

Little do they realise that it is freedom of speech which is at stake here too. Imagine one of them ever “digs up the dirt” on someone in authority. Would they risk exposing the details, lest they be meted out the same treatment which Daphne has? Hardly.

Care to expand ? Cat’s out now, might as well unleash it too.

Exactly. That’s the point that Super One, Maltastar, and their buddies at Malta Today keep overlooking.

I owe you an apology. I have re-read the paragraph and realised that it was written in the first person from the magistrate’s point of view. It simply wasn’t all that apparent from a brief initial reading. You have to admit, it wasn’t your finest literary hour.

[Daphne – This is a blog, not literature. Let’s just forget it.]

[Daphne – Do you know how to read? THE MAGISTRATE used ME as a cover to go out with other men, NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND. My God, honestly.]

Regardless of the libel case’s outcome, posterity will remember you as the victor in this sordid affair – the magistrate’s decision to only challenge the (admittedly gratuitous) ad hominem remarks can be read as a tacit admission that all the other accusations are true.

(”she will go the whole hog”) Mind you offend Kermit.

U nahlu l-hin tal-pulizija wkoll (apparti l-fatt li huma mhallsin bi flus il-haddiema).

And he should also read this blog from the beginning of the saga, simply to gain insight.

Maybe that’s because Miss Piggy is considered by some to be young and sexy. It takes all sorts, after all.

You forgot to mention the very prominent zip (no, not Akbar Zib) down the length of her top. Not quite becoming for a magistrate, and a 45-year-old one at that.