People take an active interest today in reading about this affair when other people write about it, simply because Daphne ‘exploded’ the matter into the public domain, and has not let go since.

Not that other people who write don’t know how to, but they do not ‘grab’ your attention and fire-brand what they are saying into your memory.

Daphne’s style achieves just that, and she does not cross the line irrespective of what she writes.

A lot of people have to look up the meaning of fair comment. If someone like Astrid Vella cannot stand to be called a pixxikalda, then she should just not go public in the first place.

Nobody wants public figures or politicians who can’t stand a little heat. That shows a weak character, and they are therefore not fit to govern or be spokespersons for an issue.

On a different note, Georg said it all today, and although it’s what Daphne has been telling us all along, he said it in a more delicate tone.

Frankly, like her style or not, Daphne was the only one with enough courage to expose what I seriously think is one of the two biggest scandals within our judiciary in the last 50 years.

“To take the advise given you by a certain Father.”
Is that what Father Murphy told you?

“You shall not cover your neighbour’s husband” – ‘Coveting’, yes, but methinks ‘covering’ the neighbor’s husband would have been the last thing on that certain magistrate’s mind.

[Daphne – ‘Cover’ is actually quite apt. It’s the term used by farmers when mating cattle and sheep.]

Astrid Vella has been slinging mud since FAA’s beginnings with the Ghar il-Lenbi case. I put the blame on journalists, especially those of The Times, who gave prominence to whatever she said without bothering to check the veracity of her statements.

Note: That is Astrid Vella’s opinion, not mine.

Correction: “…breach of journalistic ethics for NOT declaring her interest.”

In other words, Daphne doesn’t believe what she’s saying, she’s just paid to say it, but she doesn’t say so, so everyone will think it’s really her opinion when it isn’t.

Since you’re so hot on moral imperatives, write to your favourite magistrate and remind her of these rules:

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

You shall not cover your neighbour’s husband.

Prince Eugene l-alleat ta’ Marlborough? Ejja ghallinqas xi hadd kolt.