This isn’t just a case of a minister having some hanky-panky on the side.

It’s a matter of an attempted contracted murder.

Why should the responsibility to bring this filth to the surface lie squarely on the shoulders of an independent blogger?

The government is giving the Opposition enough material to create a national scandal and what is the Opposition doing? Hanging its lower lip and stamping its feet feebly, when it should be screaming from the rooftops.

They post their cronies in strategic places to gain control, then the cronies return the favour.

It all used to be hushed up by the higher echelons of power. Now they have become so arrogant that they dare the devil and do things overtly in the black and brown shirts style to bully the weak.

The only decent fellow is Manuel Mallia who prefers to hide his hand in his pocket to give refuge to the finger that goes in every pie.

I’m not sure about that. After all, I’m told you knew the Mallia household so well you used to change his nappies. Remember? He does.

[Daphne – Is this another 9/11 theory, Kevin? One in which an unborn person changes the nappies of a born one?]

And you seriously believe I wish to know. I inhabit a different world, Daphne. This here, your blog – your entire small world – is the cyber version of my coffee break and none of my in-laws have anything to do with that.

[Daphne – People don’t inhabit different worlds, Kevin. They inhabit their bodies and take themselves everywhere they go. There is no smaller world than Brussels suburbia, so I don’t know what you’re on about. Let’s stick to the subject in hand, which you know more about than I do.]

Look at them together. They look like two fat, ugly baddies taking a break from shooting at Rinella.

His several ‘mistakes’ – including the infamous catering occasion, and that when he grabbed the journalist’s to stop him from making further questions – do not indicate that Peter Paul Zammit was looking forward to ‘modernising’ the Police Force.

Still less was the decision – even if taken over his head and himself stooping so low as to accept it – for dropping the prepared charges against Dalli a ‘leap forward’ into a 21st century open-style police service.

Frankly, I cannot share your guess that ‘he was taken in by empty promises’.

He was certainly very much acquainted with Labour for years on end before being posted to head the police force – and was definitely very much aware of Labour’s tactics, as well as the reason for his being called to the post.

I – and so many others, I am sure – will certainly never be as apologetic as you are on his behalf.

Thobb thalltu l-hass mal-bass, Daphne, but your imagination veers towards the latter.

[Daphne – No need to be so touchy about it, Kevin. I wasn’t insulting you, but stating the quite obvious fact that as an ex policeman, with two brothers-in-law who are ex policemen and hangers-on of the Labour Party’s inner circle, you are better placed to acquire that information than I am.]