The Daphne Caruana Galizia public inquiry resumes tomorrow. It’s been a dramatic series of hearings. The last episode ended with not one but two twists, though public attention fell on just one. A pity. The twist no one missed is Robert Abela’s brazen attack on the inquiry. He has left its future in question. The panel is investigating the state but the state’s prime minister wants us to think it’s the judges who are in the dock and he who will judge them. Their transgression: they want to be thorough, which takes time. (Though they’re not taking longer than this kind of inquiry would take, for instance, in the UK). Abela has insinuated a darker motive, one he understands: money. Now the panel has declared it’s ready to keep working without payment.