Exactly. So to keep banging on about people being fed up of hearing about Panama is, to quote the chief hog himself, just hogwash.

Are you forgetting that thanks to Joseph Muscat they are all making from 80,000 to 100,000 euros a year?

They vote as the PM tells them, otherwise they might risk losing some profitable government consultancy job or be removed from a board of directors.

I wouldn’t know. It’s been two decades since I followed one. It’s a shame really. The element of “teatrin” as I liked to call it was very entertaining.

The days of those Big Show trials are long gone for everyone.

Let’s not forget the fact that he “enthralled” juries when he was paired up with Gianella Caruana Curran. When they ceased working together, he no longer ran with the leading pack.