Next time, go to The Stable Bar in Sappers Street and corner him there

It worked for me. That carousing coward Chris Cardona, the Minister for the Economy, failed to turn up for the second time to a meeting he himself called with the market-stall-holders of Valletta.

What does the man do, other than trawl Hugo Chetcuti’s bars, various nightclubs and The Stable while sleeping in flats loaned to him by a variety of businessmen friends?

And he hasn’t yet told us whether he’s going to extend JosephKonrad’s (ex) wife’s contract in Shanghai.