Comments on: So now we even have corruption and abuse in the matter of gifts to heads of government https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 06 Oct 2015 06:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: J Sammut https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053375 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 06:06:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053375 L-aqwa’ li ħa l-mediċina b’xejn.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053361 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 22:49:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053361 Or a print with sequins on it?

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053360 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 22:46:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053360 That’s because we don’t all go weeping into a Labour Party microphone.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053352 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 22:08:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053352 In reply to kenneth howard haber.

Not mental illness – ME.

]]> By: kenneth howard haber https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053348 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:52:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053348 Wasn’t this the same Kevin Drake who was crying the blues in public about his mental illness?

]]> By: anthony https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053346 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:41:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053346 In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Unless it is a genuine print by the likes of Albrecht Durer, Katsushika Hokusai or Luigi Calamatta.

That is what the Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri deserves, and expects, to be given.

]]> By: Mike Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053324 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:33:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053324 I wonder what the Arts Council has to say about this. Probably nothing because it is loaded with people who also enjoyed favours for services rendered.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053323 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:31:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053323 Yes, that’s exactly why it is a special favour: the publicity and the selection of her work.

When paintings are given by one prime minister to another, the prime minister making the gift selects a painting – on the advice of consultants – has been specially commissioned from one of the country’s best or most upcoming artists.

And it should always be an original, never a print.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053319 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:58:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053319 He’s joined the hipster movement in his 50s.

]]> By: Spa https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/10/so-now-we-even-have-corruption-and-abuse-in-the-matter-of-gifts-to-heads-of-government/#comment-3053314 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:31:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=69762#comment-3053314 Heq, Kevin Drake kien imur taht it-tinda ma’ John Bundy.

Iced bun.

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