The commissioner for standards’ report released last week confirms that Rosianne Cutajar received at least €9,000 for services rendered to Yorgen Fenech. Nothing really new. It is just another confirmation of the fact that the former Portomaso boss had a finger in every pie and near absolute control over a number of institutions and politicians. Money and power seem to work miracles in a country like Malta, where the road to triumphant materialism, started long ago under Nationalist administrations, has long reached its point of arrival, in particular after a number of years of the Joseph Muscat philosophy which values people not for what they are but for what they have and, indeed, even for what they seem. Bluff, appearance, perfectly blow-dried hair, designer signed suits, jackets and T-shirts have become the hallmark of a poser-dominated Malta, where the daily lackey cliché posting of Bonġu Ministru or Prosit Kink has become a must if you want to partake of a little portion of the swill at the trough. Muscat has managed to impose his philosophical mantra that if you are rich, powerful and financially successful then you are a somebody, a real “net worth talented person”. If,...