From my article in The Sunday Times today:

“It started escalating when the suspicion of corruption at the highest level of government was confirmed by Daphne Caruana Galizia’s stories and then the Panama Papers. The toxicity, the tension and the poisoned environment have only got worse and in the last six months they have spun in an unpredictable vortex that may carry us to a place none of us want to go.

“This poisoned brew has 10 ingredients.”

Read the rest of the article here.