It wasn't me who said it
It was the anthropologist Mark-Anthony Falzon, whose columns in The Sunday Times are among the very few pieces worth reading in the deluge of newsprint generated in Malta every Sunday.
Writing about the dockyard workers’ lack of public affairs acumen, today, he made an ancillary point when remarking about protests at the door to the Auberge de Castille, which is our No. 10 Downing Street:
“I think it should be left to Graffiti and Alternattiva Demokratika to play the Reds. They are for the most part mollycoddled university types, for whom rallies are just another bit of fun and a chance to wear their Che Guevara T-shirts. They also have nothing to lose. Unlike, unfortunately, dockyard workers.”
Amen to that.
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[…] on the blogosphere, She Who Continuously Craps on the Greens was elated and gleeful because columnist Mark Anthony Falzon (MAF for short) had something to say […]
{Daphne – I don’t ‘crap’ on the real greens, Jacques, but only on those who needed a nice name for their fledgling political party because Alternattiva didn’t quite swing it.]
[Incidentally… did Daffers really miss an earlier paragraph in the same article by MAF?
“Second, the past 20 years or so have seen the rise of the media as a kind of third estate. Not surprisingly, given that most of the people behind the process were and are paid-up (and paid back) Nationalists, the current government is a master hand at playing the media to its advantage.”
It’s not me who’s saying this, is it? Then again, you know what we all think about stereotypes.]
Amen to that too?