Marlene Mizzi should tell us what she thinks about Adrian Hillman being in bed for years with Keith Schembri

The rabid Labour MEP Marlene Mizzi – one of the few women of that generation who spent years at St Dorothy’s Convent yet emerged unable to punctuate or construct a proper sentence – has been ranting and raving because the Nationalist Party has recruited its new campaign manager from the Times of Malta’s newsroom.

I don’t know why she’s so astonished. Political campaigns are routinely handled by former journalists throughout the civilised world. In fact, her boss Joseph Muscat has had one in his office for the last three to four years, for just that purpose: Leslie Skipper, who used to work for the BBC.

Using Mrs Mizzi’s false logic, this must mean that the BBC is partisan and supports Joseph Muscat and the Malta Labour Party, because one of its former employees is now paid by him to write press statements for the robotically-spoken Konrad Mizzi in idiomatic British English, and to advise on how to handle the press in corruption scandals (an impossible task; I hope he’s paid sufficiently generously).

Mrs Mizzi, who runs a small toy shop in Rabat but has always presented herself as a mogul on the lines of Hugo Chetcuti or Joe Gasan (or perhaps even Bill Gates), should tell us, more pertinently, what she thinks about the fact that her boss’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, was in bed for years with the Times of Malta’s managing director, Adrian Hillman, and their closet (financially speaking) relationship and illegal dealings ended only when they were forced out into the open by the revelations in the Panama Papers.

Or at least, it is the illicit financial/business/influence relationship which the Prime Minister’s chief of staff had with the Times of Malta’s managing director which has ended, because Hillman has been kicked out of that organisation. But the Prime Minister’s chief of staff’s illicit business relationship with Hillman the individual continues, because the secret companies they organised for themselves in Panama, the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus and Gibraltar remain extant, and transactions are probably ongoing.

Read Caroline Muscat’s article here, and ask yourself why Mrs Mizzi was so upset.