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.