Were those stones meant to symbolise the Maltese Stone Age and the ‘temples’?

Joseph Calleja, standing and singing surrounded by children of assorted shapes and sizes, in a ring of polystyrene slabs painted a sort of gold.

They just don’t get it, do they.

The opening ceremony should have included nothing more in the way of ‘entertainment’ than Joseph Calleja belting out a couple of token significant numbers – precisely because the opening ceremony is not an entertainment show but an opening ceremony and needs no entertainment at all.

But in Maltese hands it gets turned into a combination of WardaKanta, Gensna and Song for Europe.