It seems you can say what you like nowadays, because all that will happen, if anything, is that someone will issue a statement saying the opposite and no-one will give much of a monkey's.

For instance, the head honcho at what used to be called, when I worked for the private sector's civil service, the Chamber of Commerce, came out with a statement about the operations of Virtu' Ferries that seems to have been characterised by inaccuracies of enormous scale.

All that happened was that Virtu' Ferries had to come out with a statement of their own, highlighting the inaccuracies.

The fact that Mr Curmi should not have got it so wrong in the first place, apparently because that is what his members felt, is relevant but does not appear to worry anyone.

The Hon. Helena Dalli, in the House, saw fit, according to "other media" reports, to rake up an old, old case, dropping unsubtle hints about precisely who she was talking about, with the inelegant rider that the person concerned "needs help".

How crass, especially since any response would just continue to open old wounds.  Ms Dalli is free to say what she likes in the House, of course, far be it from me to trample over our Honourable Representatives' privileges, but there is much to be said for the point that they shouldn't abuse these privileges.

The Hon. Dr Manwel Mallia told us that members of the armed forces are being stationed at ministries in order to give a sense of security to the workers toiling therein.

If you take a stroll past his Ministry, you'll catch a glimpse of the extent to which the fine specimens of manhood can inspire faith in their defensive attributes.  Mallia's blithe reply should be contested on so many grounds.

It won't be.

Richard Matrenza saw fit to dump on the Nationalist Party, lamenting some obscure and unimportant episode from his own past, back in the 1960s.  So irrelevant was the story to today that I thought that it had slipped through some sort of time-warp, but in fact it was merely symptomatic of the obsession that so many  commentators have with the PN, incapable as these commentators seem to be of accepting that Labour are in Government.

Saying what you like, because no-one cares, is the watchword today.

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