When someone sets a price to a property they wish to sell, they often take into consideration the fact that there will be some bargaining on the price, and so they elevate it accordingly.

Likewise, Joseph Muscat has always come across as a great chess player. In a game of chess, one does not move his piece as best he can, he considers his opponent’s next move and his that will then counteract it.

I have grown to mistrust politicians so much that I wonder if the now ‘reduced area’ in Żonqor may actually be the agreed upon area with the Sadeen Group.

The government may have pretended to ‘listen to the people’, the thousands who swarmed into Valletta on a Saturday morning to protest against developments in ODZ areas. I am also wary of those who were so vociferous against it but now claim to be satisfied.

Have we been toyed with? Only publishing the government’s agreement with Sadeen will put our minds at rest that this is not the case.