But do you know what, Victor’s nephew? Call it perverse if you wish, but sometimes it is even satisfying to see the state to which these tyrants are reduced with the passing of time, because yes, we are all human after all. Mhux qed niehu gost bid-deni ta’ hadd iehor, imma … it is good to see that certain people strive to ruin others (jobghodu l-min ghandu, as we say), and yet they still all go down the same road as the rest of us, no? Which is why I said that I prefer to live for today …

As for your comment about being cheap at offending people who wear wigs, please don’t generalise. I was not offending PEOPLE (IN GENERAL) who wear wigs, because I do agree that in some cases they may be necessary. It is just that I fail to see how people can take a MAN in a wig seriously, and a political leader at that. I mean, imagine the guy getting up in the morning, deciding what wig to wear. How manly is that? To me it is tantamount to a man having his hair dyed or blow-dried. All such cases, to me, are objects of ridicule.

As for your comment about your uncle Victor (“I don’t think he is that important (unlike his father)”). If you really must know, it was the very sight of the surname Laiviera on The Times blog re the infamous university debate which sparked off many dormant memories for me. I was very young in the ’70s, but somehow, the surname “Laiviera”, though I admit that I do not know much about the person himself, remained stuck in my memory along with the likes of Mintoff, Lorry Sant and co in the days of black and white TV, when to us children, the parliamentary debates on black and white TV were a source of entertainment, since they were usually highly animated, to say the least.

As for your comment “allow me to remind women like you who live in the past and always speak of the horrible things that labour did … that the right to vote was given to women by a labour party …”, how wrong you are to insinuate that (a) I live in the past (see my comment above), and that (b) “women like me” should (read between the lines) forget the past simply because Labour “has given us the right to vote”.

Unlike the infamous MLP comment (yours included), history is NOT just history. One has to acknowledge – and apologise for – the past should one want to be credible, especially should one’s track record not be one to be proud of.

Are you referring to the monstrous concrete structure being built at the end of the short road leading down to the inland sea at Dwejra in Gozo? I was there a few days ago (hence my short silence), and was wondering what it could be, given that it is certainly not in-keeping with the rest of the area.

Mind you I would have voted PN anyway :)

BTW, and to be fair on Maltese stations, the worst thing (after Dardir Malta of course) I ever heard for on air idiocy was from the Armed Forces Radio Network – The Eagle. Some time ago, I was listening to it just after Thanksgiving and the listeners were informed of what George Bush had to eat, down to the last detail, a side plate of peas, that were well received by the Boss.

The icing on the cake for me was when the presenter stated that the President’s family had been joined at Camp David by his dog (the mutt’s name was mentioned but escapes me), and that the dog had been flown up by helicopter to Camp David!!!!!

It must warm American taxpayer’s heart to know that a chopper ride was laid on extra for the Presidential dog. I remember thinking at the time that as this Radio station targets Americans stationed aboroad, they must be proud to know what they are fighting for.