As if we needed to be reminded here is the OSCE — that exists to bring the Russians and the Americans to jointly monitor trouble spots around Europe like Belarus, the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Albania — explaining explicitly what the rest of the world thinks of us right now.

Do please read this statement of the OSCE’s representative on press freedom.

No mincing of words here. He connects the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia with the state sponsored oppression in her lifetime including the freezing of her bank accounts as a penalty for doing her job even before she was tried for what she was accused of.

Here is Chris Cardona being named by the foremost human rights and security organisation in Europe. Go. Now. And your boss, Joseph Muscat, who put you up to it and protected you. He must go today.