I swear that the fever I was running at the time I was watching TV last Thursday mid-morning had nothing to do with this.

I swear too that there was only coffee in my watery black coffee, not even a sugar cube.

But did I not hear (and see in living colour) Malta’s foremost prolific commentator on the political (and economic) scene say that in the event of a hung Parliament later that noon there would be no casting vote from the Speaker?

Maybe it was the water in my coffee. How could an ex-senior government minister, after so many years gracing the island’s highest institution, Malta’s eminence grise, have said that?

No. He didn’t.

Yes, it was the water in my coffee.