Whilst everybody pretends to be above the latest Cyrus Engerer drama, the truth is that everybody has Cyrus on the brain.

Despite the obvious irony in their choice of words, some are insisting on telling Cyrus to 'keep it up,' whilst others, of course, can't wait to see him walk the plank.

At the same time, Marvic Camilleri, Cyrus's ex, and alleged victim in this whole saga, admitted to having a 'sex picture fetish' –

"I am a bit tired of feeling I have something to hide," he said on The Maltese Gay Community's Facebook Page, "I feel like I'm back in the closet, so I thought of letting you all know, I m out. I have a sex picture fetish! Judge if you like, but it is support that one needs in such cases."

With this Facebook Page having over 700 members, I'm assuming that this is pretty public by now. I'm also assuming that pretty much everybody knows what a sex picture fetish means, and that unlike me, you don't have to ask Marvic to explain further.

Sex fetishes aside, at the end of the day, whoever is behind the series of coincidences that occurred right after Cyrus's defection to the PL, is already laughing all the way to the bank because, with all the fingers that have been dipped in the proverbial pie, it is hard to foresee who the winner will turn out to be.

Whether the PN will manage to clear their name, whether Edgar Galea Curmi's reputation will come out as clean as a whistle, whether the infamous charge sheet leak will ever be patched up, and whether kiwi will become the national fruit, is anybody's guess.

What's for sure is that the winners will be those clever enough to pull the right strings, and feed the important mouths of the political PR monster.

Sadly, almost everyone I speak to is convinced that if Cyrus is proven guilty of the charges against him, it will be the end of his political career, and whilst this might be true, reality is that there are worst things that thriving politicians get up to...and yet, they are still thriving.

From secretly granting themselves a €600/week pay rise, to overpromising and under-delivering the Arriva catastrophe; from dragging their feet for years on end before giving us the basic human right to consult with an attorney prior to police interrogation, to burying a seven year old child abuse case and protecting the Church; from promising a state of the art hospital which turns out to have less beds than the one before it, to having the audacity of repeatedly voting against the electorates will.

The list goes on and on and let's face it, it is these things that effect society at large, and not the spur of the moment act of circulating naked photos of an ex who has a sex picture fetish.

So Cyrus, as mockingly ironic as this might sound, keep it up, as there are worse things that you could do. Even though the neighbourhood thinks you're trashy, and no good, I suppose it could be true, there are worse things you could do.