The revelations by criminals about who planned and ordered the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia as well as other crimes and the promise of further revelations implicating politicians has turned the tables of good and evil and of the rule of law in Malta. Shakespeare could read human nature. Hamlet set up a play within a play for his uncle Claudius and his mother Queen Gertrude to goad Claudius to admit to the killing of Hamlet’s father. An actress in the play was making too many insincere protestations of love and fidelity. Queen Gertrude was not fooled by the repetitious lies. When asked by Hamlet whether his mother liked the play, she made the famous statement: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” What an appropriate statement in the context of present-day Malta! Narcissus has replaced Invictus. Our new prime minister who took over from his disgraced predecessor, continuously repeats: “The institutions are working and Malta has the rule of law.” No one believes his protestations and the more he repeats it the more any objective onlooker would say: “The man doth protest too much, methinks.” Another Pinocchio-like untruth of our new ‘Kink’ is that Malta is living a...