I was about to settle down to watch Stephen Fry and a host of other genii in "12th Night" when my phone vibrated with the news that Labour had decided to come clean about using that Debono person in their war with the PN.

According to Labour, he was there to explain his his Government-toppling vote last Monday, while according to the man himself, he was there to debate the justice reforms of which he, and very few others, are so proud.

Not only have they cynically and opportunistically used Debono over the last year and whatever, not only have they revelled in his ranting and raving because they, and no-one else with a brain, saw him as evidence of the PN's instability, now the mask has fallen and he has become a spokesman and a tool in their childish machinations.

They want to dictate the agenda, hi-jack broadcasting and generally act like the little tin-pot dictators that they quite clearly lust to be: and then they have the nerve, the unmitigated effrontery, to accuse Simon Busuttil of cowardice because he walked away from that irrelevant twerp.

Cowards, my friends, are the ones who hide behind the vulnerable and pull silly little stunts like this.

Cowards are the ones who fail to turn up for debates and then have others going "yah,boo, sucks to you".

These people want to run the country: they can't even get Xarabank right.

And now I gotta go, because my Internet time is running out - incidentally, my Beck column was written very early, so you might find it a bit behind the clock.