Finally, you really hit the nail on the head: there is no need to know. There is just a profound desire to know (publicly speaking) which of course is not the same thing.

Anyway, well done!

They have lowered the standards to such an abysmal level they ought to be more than ashamed of themselves.

But then again, as we say in Maltese, wiccu (or wicchom in this case) wicc l-ghatba tal-qorti [lit. trans. his face is {like} the the top face of the Law Courts’ door sill].

So they do not even know there is the concept of shame, let alone entertain the notion of the possibility of feeling it.

I used to think that only Saviour Balzan was a “pompous ass”, as he himself once admitted. Now, I’m beginning to think the epithet really applies to both of them.

Daphne, as an eminent publicist in Malta, your good self will most probably know that your own essays will most probably lead to further “talking”. I cannot surmise that you would wish that your thoughts, which you publish, would remain without feedback.

As an example, please allow me to quote from above: [The details which will emerge are almost certain to be extremely difficult for the families of the dead.]

As a most critical reader of your blog, I would have to ask myself: How does Daphne know, or at best come to the conclusion, that “details” will “emerge”?

Do your own words not tempt to further “talking”?

[Daphne – No, they don’t. They might actually have focussed some people’s minds. And I am not a publicist. I write a newspaper column and a blog.]