Well, if you position yourself as the metaphorical villager, then it’s no wonder you think as you do. No one’s obliged you to mutter darkly behind the shutters rather than speak openly in your own name.

Well…. “Irid ikollok wiccek vili” as the parishioners used to say behind a particularly harsh sermon by a ‘wayward’ priest in a nearby village…

What rubbish. Who’s stopping you expressing an opinion or barring you from voting?

Andrea, and if you do ask your hairdresser about your appendix, she/he will probably feel qualified to give you a diagnosis too.

[Daphne -touchy, touchy]

“As for Piano’s opinion carrying more weight than mine, why should it? They are both after all just opinions. You don’t have to be an architect to form an opinion”.

The difference between Tryrell and Piano’s opinions is easy to discern. Piano’s ‘opinion’ comes from a world renowned architect and took the form of plans and models for all to see and touch. Tryrell’s opinion is one more whine, empty words, waste of paper space and comes from a plebe who tries to make us fellow mortals believe that he lives in Ireland when he actually occupies valuable space in Gozo which space should be given back to Gozitans.

Incidentally, the picture of Tyrell’s Parliament is actually the brand name of the sauce Daphne pours on her steak. I wonder the significance of the choice of picture and name.

I am deeply shocked by what Lesley Kreupl from Gozo wrote in today’s Independent on Sunday. In a letter to the editor with the heading “I would poison you, Mr Calleja”, she writes:
“On reading Stephen Calleja’s bit in defence (?) of what he wrote about Ms Vella (“Where’s the halo, Astrid?” TMIS, 19 July), I must admit that I was very surprised to hear that an MCP such as he (still) has a wife – if I were married to him and he wrote of me in that vein I would be long gone to greener pastures, or he would be in the grave having succumbed to my purposely poisonous cooking…… My description of him as “barbaric” obviously needs to be re-accessed – downwards – Hagar the Horrible, on a good day, would not even come close. ……Mr Calleja, all I can say in conclusion is that, although I am 100 per cent for freedom of speech, I am exceptionally disappointed that someone of your inferior intellect has been given space in a newspaper of this calibre.”

Apart from being very insulting, Ms. Kreupl gets personal and actual claims she would poison Stephen Calleja if he were her husband!

Do FAA really believe that such writings could them any good?