UPDATED WITH LINK TO VIDEO/Times Talk

If you missed Times Talk last night, you can watch it here now.

What follows is my live commentary while watching it last night.

Dr Korrott Mixtri has just told us that he paid for his own house. The one in London, that is (still no address or even area code).

Things “have been overshadowed by this event,” he said. This event being the stunning revelation that he and the Prime Minister’s chief of staff opened companies in Panama sheltered by trusts in New Zealand, when they were in office already, in concert – and that Keith Schembri had secret companies in the British Virgin Islands already at the time.

Dr Korrott Mixtri has just said that he “made an error of judgement”. “You didn’t make an error of judgement,” Beppe Fenech Adami said. “You took a calculated risk. Nobody believes you. Stop digging your own grave.”

Now Carmel Caccopardo of AD is laying into Dr Korrott Mixtri: “You negotiated with one of the world’s most corrupt states. And you went alone, without civil servants or diplomats.”

“You opened a company in Panama to look after your ministerial salary. That’s what you want us to believe. Go tell it to the Marines,” Fenech Adami said to Mizzi. “NOBODY believes you out there. NOBODY.”

Konrad Mizzi has now threatened to file a libel suit tomorrow first thing in the morning, against Fenech Adami. “Tell us why you opened a company in Panama, in that case,” Herman Grech said. No answer, of course. Now he’s describing his trust. Do we give a damn? What we want to know is why he set it up.

He’s still insisting that “there is nothing in the company. You know how it is – because he opened it just for fun. As one does.

He’s now pretending that he had every intention of listing his Panama company in his declaration of assets, that he wasn’t rumbled. Of course – that’s why he went to a top-secret jurisdiction: to declare it to Parliament.

Beppe Fenech Adami (that’s where being a lawyer is so useful) is now challenging him to explain his rationale in setting up a Panama company to hold a London house that is declared to the authorities already. So far, no satisfactory answer. “It’s quite normal to hold property in trust,” he said. “Yes, but not in secret Panama,” Fenech Adami shot back.

Show-host Mark Micallef has now asked him why he has a company in Panama when he has no discernible assets to justify it. “I have substantial assets,” Mizzi said, smugly. “My house in London is fully paid up.” Oh right, at 35 he had a fully paid up house in London already. As Beppe Fenech Adami said, go tell it to the Marines.

Now Konrad has said that he is going to make good for his “mistakes” by working even harder. Please, Konrad, don’t.

“How many mistakes are you going to make?” Herman Grech asked. “Still making mistakes? These are not mistakes.”

Now they’re showing some footage of a red-faced Muscat, who looks like he’s been crying all night long, speaking in Gozo last Sunday morning, to a crowd of obsessed supporters. A baby is whining in the background, which is appropriate.

Mizzi has just said that New Zealand appealed to him because it is “transparent”. He lies. It is not even remotely transparent. Oh, and he went to Panama first. The company in Panama came first. He set up the trust to shelter the company in Panama even further.

Herman Grech has just said to Dr Korrott Mixtri: “You keep mentioning Ann Fenech. Ann Fenech does NOT have a company in Panama.”

Mizzi has told us that he does “not come from a political dynasty”. And that Fenech Adami “needed a godfather to become deputy leader” and he did not. Really? To the rest of the island out here, it looked very much like Joseph Muscat was his parrinu who inflicted him on the Labour Party.

Now he’s getting a verbal beating from Fenech Adami, for going to Baku to negotiate with the Prime Minister and Keith Schembri, unmonitored by civil servants, then going to Panama to set up a company. “Panama is one of the filthiest money-laundering sinks in the world,” he said, quoting Transparency International.

Herman Grech said that people have resigned for much less. Can’t you understand how much damage you’re doing to the party, the government and the country, he asked Mizzi. Did you at least even offer your resignation?

“I acted in line with the law,” Mizzi said, avoiding the resignation question. He’s just avoided that direct question again.

He’s now called me Daphne PN. How cheap. How tacky. Grech has shut him up, saying that I am not there to respond.

Why does Dr Korrott Mixtri insist on using English? His accent is beyond terrible. That’s somebody who grew up speaking only Maltese, so why doesn’t he speak Maltese like a normal person? “I’m going to walk the talk. I’m going to subject myself to a full tax audit. I’m a straightforward person.”

“Instead of a power station, you’ve got a panic station,” Fenech Adami has said now. “Out there nobody, but nobody believes you. Let me just quote your own words back at you: you are not fit for purpose. Shame on you.”

Carmel Caccopardo is now telling Mizzi that he should have been a man and resigned. That he shouldn’t have waited for the Prime Minister to demand his resignation (not that the Prime Minister had any intention of doing so).

“The Minister did not make a ‘mistake’,” Fenech Adami said. “The Minister got caught. Konrad Mizzi, your time is up.” Now Mark Micallef has said that’s right, that once doubt like that sets in, that’s it. Mizzi has four people at the table telling him he’s wrong – the two show-hosts and the other guests – and still he’s digging in. “I will keep repaying the people by delivering more,” he said. Thanks, but no thanks. Now they’re done. Goodnight.