I’m thinking the ambassadorship was offered first to Manuel not Joseph Cuschieri

Let’s face it – what possible job could you not accept on the basis that it would deprive you of contact with your aged father who has very conveniently obtained a free, government-sponsored place in the care home Villa Messina, where he is cared for by others anyway?

A job that takes you away from Malta for long periods, of course.

“Eroj fis-skiet” indeed.