And yes, John Dalli should never have been allowed to return to the cabinet after he was forced out.

I really am not going to take advice on how to report on these matters. If I know FOR A FACT – I repeat, for a fact and not ‘perhaps’ – that a cabinet minister and his policy aide were in a brothel when away on government business, then I am going to report it, and hang the rest.

Imagine having a key piece of information like that and not reporting it. It would be hugely irresponsible and a dereliction of journalistic duty.

What would you suggest I should have done instead – go and look for Chris Cardona at the Stable and use the information to blackmail him instead? I mean, really.

Tghidli x’tghidli jien konvint li ghandi ragun fuq din. Li taghmel storja bhal din (li nerga nghid jien nemmnek) minghajr ma zzid provi konkreti mhuwiex professjonali. Tista mhux tghidli peasant, stupid u naiive. Jien jekk ha naghmel allegazzjonijiet serji fuq xi hadd irid ikolli l-provi ha ntemmaghhomlu ma wiccu – mhux kif ghamilt int. Issa naghmel sieghha nahseb u ntella storja fuq il-fb bla provi. Kull min jaghfni nassigurak li jghidlek kemm jien onest u aktarx nitwemmen. Hekk sewwa? Kun naqra umli..

This person exists. He is not a figment of anybody’s imagination. You need to remember that. Chris Cardona and Joe Gerada are certainly well aware of it themselves, which accounts for their panic.

In these situations, cabinet ministers resign because they did it and were rumbled. Chris Cardona and Gerada KNOW THEY WERE THERE AND THEY KNOW THEY WERE SEEN BY ANOTHER MALTESE MAN WHO REPORTED THE MATTER.

Your thinking is typical of a society in which people confuse the matters of religion, law, ethics, guilt, proof, conviction, crime and wrong-doing.

Of course he should resign: he knows he went to a brothel with his policy aide and he also knows he’s lying about it. And so do his cabinet colleagues.

With his flaccid member?