Protect whistleblowers but ban the whistles

Perhaps I would be allowed to share with other The Times readers last night’s dream (wherein I had tuned in to the BBC World Service “Good morning, and now for news from the island of Malta in the Mediterranean: “The government has an­nounced that only...

Perhaps I would be allowed to share with other The Times readers last night’s dream (wherein I had tuned in to the BBC World Service

“Good morning, and now for news from the island of Malta in the Mediterranean:

“The government has an­nounced that only one day after Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi announced the introduction of a Whistleblower Act to ensure that corruption is no more, all government and opposition members of Parliament have agreed at a 10-minute meeting that they should contemporaneously ban the importation into or manufacture in Malta of any form of whistle, and this in an effort to reduce noise pollution… which they consider to be Malta’s biggest problem at this time”.

The further suggestion by both political leaders is that the ban on whistles should be entrenched in Malta’s Constitution as a matter of urgency.

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