‘Irrelevant!?’ - How insensitive! What a morbid, dark, evil sense of humour! 16th October 2017 – 2.35 p.m. - ‘There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.’ - 25 minutes later Daphne Caruana Galizia is assassinated. I wonder how many of us had ever imagined how prophetic her incisive last piece of conversation [...]

Have you ever heard the song of a nightingale? It’s very seductive. Its harmony hypnotic and many are held in awe of it. Poets have dedicated works to it. But allusions can very easily be illusions. It’s not the first time a crow masqueraded as a nightingale and so in King Lear we are warned [...]