@Jozef

Information comes in over time.

When information is laid and buried like a snake in the earth, the sighting of the tail gives no precise detail on where the head’s been and the no complete picture of where the fangs have been at work.

In due time, yes. A sense of timing is essential, always.

Details to the max in due time.

Ghax Daphne thobb titkellem maghna.

Bingo! I’m glad you know about the lawyers bit.

I suppose you also know about the links to 135 Holland Park Avenue.

Of course he was paid (we trust) but maybe somebody got a secret cut on all of that and now has a problem.

Some journalists are allowed to dominate while others are restricted to working on minor stories. It is clear that the reform which was supposed to have been introduced two years ago in the editorial department failed miserably.

Too many people are talking about it and inferring that Mario de Marco is somehow responsible for this because he wants Simon Busuttil, who beat him to the leadership, to fall at the next electoral hurdle.

Whether this is true or not is almost irrelevant now as the perception is so widespread. Either way, de Marco should be cognizant of what is being said, of how it is affecting both Times of Malta’s credibility and his own credibility in the PN, and do something about it.

Thank you for this explanation.

Then what is it? Just laziness? Because there’s method in it.

Daphne, we need a post on why you were fired from The Times.

To me, it’s clear as day.

[Daphne – I was fired as a columnist with The Sunday Times after I wrote a column pointing out the obvious: that the deputy prime minister’s daughter should not be defence counsel to the man accused of commissioning the murder of the prime minister’s personal assistant. I said that it was an intolerable situation in a normal democracy, but then Malta was not a normal democracy. The Sunday Times refused to publish that piece and I was so annoyed, because it was so obvious why they refused to publish it, that I took it to The Malta Independent. When Guido de Marco received word that I had been engaged by The Malta Independent as a columnist, he rang a couple of my employers and tried to put pressure on them. His exact words were: “If you don’t let her write for you, she’ll have nowhere to write.” Let her write? That shows how much he understood the role of a columnist in a democracy, given that he saw me as somebody writing to get a message across who had to fight to get a platform, rather than as somebody readers wanted to read and whose column was purely a business decision for a newspaper. They ignored him and in any case he is now dead, so let’s not discuss that. I have reason to believe that the real reason Times of Malta are not going to town on the power station contract/s is the identity of a couple of the lawyers involved in those very contracts.]