Today in this instant news world, we get up-to-the-minute information on most subjects.

Through Facebook, we could see the PN gathering on Sunday evening on the Fosos, and we could also see the gathering outside the Law Courts of those honouring Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Two events held at the same time. People in each case that definitely do not side with Joseph Muscat and the Labour administration. But these two events were at odds with each other.

Among the biggest rounds of applause by the Daphne crowd came when speaker or other attacked the PN.

Maybe one is mistaken, but one definitely gets the impression there were more people in front of the Law Courts than there were on the Fosos.

This is what the party in Opposition has been reduced to – a party in dispersion. One can come to a conclusion and ask if there is one party at all.

The weekend papers carried many interviews with the PN leader in which he appealed to one and all to work together. But then one learns that the party’s parliamentary group has not met after the Egrant aftermath (it will now meet next Monday), that the present leader has not met his predecessor for months, and that many MPs, speaking anonymously of course, have been complaining to the media about the leadership.

For all that he speaks about being willing to meet everyone and to discuss with everyone, the party leader still does not try and bridge the divide.

The party still goes through the motions – it has chosen its candidates for the EP election; it holds regular meetings; every so often it announces an internal promotion or two, but you get the feeling this is all being done in a vacuum and that people are just going through the motions.

The party leader seems to be happy the way he is, he boasts of what he has been doing this past year (while opinion polls go south and south again), he goes round the festi crowds but he does not seem to be making a real effort to get to meet and have a real discussion with those who are not in his close coterie. On the contrary, it seems he avoids them. He has a party in dispersion but is doing nothing to remedy the splits. All he seems to be saying is to echo George Borg Olivier’s notorious “Ejjew maghna” before the 1976 election.

So now there are three groups within the party – the core party supporters who will remain PN till their deaths, the pro-Daphne group; and a wide group of supporters who so far do not side with either side.

On Sunday there was a distinct attempt by the Daphne group to ally themselves with the activists who tried to disrupt the PA meeting.

So this group, while honouring Daphne, may be trying to branch out.

We cannot identify any corresponding initiative on the part of the official party. They seem to be happy with a party in dispersion.