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"The machinations and behind the scenes goings-on are described in detail, confirming what we then thought were simply rumours." SAVIOUR BALZAN, FOUNDER & FORMER EDITOR, 'MALTA TODAY' "The author speaks his mind and does not mince words about issues dating back a few years but also very recent." RAY BUGEJA, FORMER EDITOR, 'THE TIMES' "A compilation of narrations which should elicit the interest of investigative journalists." FRANS GHIRXI, FORMER EDITOR, 'L-ORIZZONT' "The protagonist's humanity is felt throughout. You are left with an image of a man who is at once a rebel not lacking in courage but also fragile and sensitive." JOE CASSAR, EDITOR, 'IN-NAZZJON' AVAILABLE FROM LEADING BOOKSHOPS PUBLISHED BY CHOPPY BOOKS and DISTRIBUTED by MILLERS DISTRIBUTORS LTD. T. 21 66 44 88 AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK or PAPERBACK An autobiography Then again, it was only a group of PN-appointed experts – some of them going on to become PN party appointees – who listed Caruana Galizia's blog as one of the reasons that the PN had lost support in the 2008 and 2013 election. When Caroline Muscat became the PN's campaign manager in 2016, she was comfortable with hitching the party's agenda to the Caruana Galizia blog. So I guess whatever I said in the past will never find any form of justifica- tion with her. Hard lines, I guess. But by having been a harsh critic of Caruana Galizia's work before her brutal assassination only makes me my own man in this free marketplace of ideas where we ply our trade. I knew Daphne since my youth, and I disliked her attacks on private families' lives, mine included. It surely does not mean that those who feebly objected to her writ- ing, are guilty by association of what unjustly befell her. How would such logic fit those who relentlessly hit out at me, per- sonally, ostensibly for my strong opinions...? I'm not one for regret about ac- tions in which we commit our- selves judiciously. In 2013, I be- lieved in Joseph Muscat's bid for a changed political landscape. That does not make anyone an unprincipled bastard who want- ed Caruana Galizia murdered. Caroline Muscat is free to write what she fancies, but journalism is better when it is freed of an- ger, envy and partisan bias. Her piece on me came a week after her previous hatchet-piece on Manuel Delia (another PN appa- ratchik who transformed himself into a valiant journalist), whose limelight-hogging stunt rubbed off badly on Muscat. I wonder how come she never took a shot at Ivan Camilleri, the journalist sacked by The Times and ac- cused of having been referred to in the Yorgen Fenech chats with his uncle Ray on the eve of his attempted escape from Malta. No, that kind of rascal is not on Muscat's agenda. She must be a fan of his writing style.