Why was it necessary to excavate on top of the bridge to “locate the remains of the original bridge” when the original bridge is clearly visible from below?

And may I also ask you why you are referring to “the remains” of the original bridge? Are you implying that there are only a few fragments left?

Antoine, may I reciprocate? Please don’t play with words!

[Daphne – That’s it, you two. Correspondence on this subject is now closed.]

It seems Toni Abela is too lazy to do his own research.

Someone has posted a comment to the effect that the statues were destroyed when a Nazi bomb hit the bridge. It didn’t sound like there was much left of them.

[Daphne – That might not be correct, because the original bridge is buried within the existing one. John might know. John?]

Did you follow Frank Portelli’s campaign at all?

Leo Said, don’t play with words please. When you say that you detest most forms of bigotry (i.e. not all) you are basing yourself on what you, not others, qualify as bigotry. If someone else classifies an attitude as a bigoted one but you do not agree and support it anyway, you would not describe yourself as supporting bigotry.

At any rate, no PN candidate had an anti-immigrant platform. Some echoed the PM’s preoccupation regarding the logistical challenges and problems that immigration poses to the administration and said that, if elected to the EP, they would strive to get more EU help for Malta. Anti-immigrants are those who look down on immigrants and talk about them in offensive tones for no other reason than because they are African or Arab.

Toni, (you don’t mind if I call you Toni, do you?) all gates are entrances – and exits. And they usually fit the style to the place they provide access to and are coherent with it. If Piano’s plan is adpted, it will mean we have a walled city with all its walls practically intact but without a main gate that fits with and completes the structure. It will be like a snake without a head, a belt with no buckle, a body without a head.

Entering Valletta through that horrible gash in the forifications will be like being fed through a stomach tube rather than eating a steak.

BTW – your attempts at phishing and playing Sherlock Holmes are laughable if they were not so sad. Play the ball instead of trying to play the man.

John is John (the “II” is purely to avoid ambiguity)

Any resemblance to any other poster, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Well, for the record it is very easy for anybody with a reasonable grasp of IT to fake/clone an IP number.

[Daphne – I don’t think he has a reasonable grasp of IT. Ettore Bono, when I began deleting his comments, began using a variety of names and hadn’t a clue that his IP number would carry on showing up. So if it is the same person, then he would have taken the simpler option of using a computer in a different location. But I don’t think so, because Ettore Bono commented from his workplace, and I suppose John II does as well, unless they work the night shift.]