I think that the first truth we learnt as soon as we could talk is that the nursery rhyme ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me’ is a big fat lie.
How many toddlers do you know brandishing sticks or throwing stones in the playground unless you are David training for your meeting with that philistine Goliath?
But as soon as we could talk, we learnt the value of words, what they can do. How they can hurt. How our words trigger a response from others depending on what we would like to achieve. More often than not, we remember what people told us or said about us, more than what they did to us.
The inquiry must reach its conclusions unhindered
Nonetheless, it would be counterproductive if that time limit is now used as a guillotine, to hinder the emergence of a fuller picture for the inquiry board to base its conclusions upon
16 December 2020, 7:33am
Much has been said and written about the terms of reference of the public inquiry into the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia: more specifically, into the question of whether the Maltese State was in any way culpable (through its own actions and/or omissions) for this heinous crime.
But while the terms themselves appear to be quite precise, there are certain aspects which remain vague to this day.