Some things make so much sense with the benefit of hindsight.

How very interesting that Caroline Muscat chose an Orwellian quote to try to portray herself as a crusading journalist, pure-as-the-driven-snow, not given to public relation campaigns. Less than a year later she has taken up a public relations job and will be running the show at PN headquarters.

If that isn’t asking for trouble, then I don’t know what is. But it’s actually typical of the sort of person she is. All this faux concern and posturing, combined with the need to tell us that ‘throughout my life I have always avoided being partisan because of my role as a journalist, but I now feel that I must take a stand. I am giving up my career in journalism because I have been left with little doubt that this government is riddled with corruption.”

If she had conducted herself properly and was truly impartial, she wouldn’t have felt the need to tell us that she avoided being partisan. The truth is that she made a career of being anything but.

We all know that there is no such thing as something which happens overnight. This position has long been coming – it didn’t just fall out of the clear blue PN sky.

This shows the desperation and the lengths that some people will go. It also confirms the sort of rag the Times has disintegrated into. The sort of newspaper Orwell would have hated.