There is no balcony at Castille.

Israel Mostel,you’re keeping your BS detector too close to you – no wonder it’s flatlining.

Istra. KMB crowdsurfing. This image will haunt me for the rest of the day.

@ RED NOSE – it just happened that Labour ruled the roost in the 70s and 80s and JAM quickly found his place as GWU lawyer, perky jobs and, as I commented earlier, sucker-up to KMB. I vividly remember some Xandir Malta footage of KMB waving from the balcony of Castille during some demonstration or other and JAM holding him by the pants just in case he (KMB) decided to fling himself onto the crowd a la rock star in a concert.

[Daphne – His father supported the Labour Party.]

Why – here it is:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=105132

I like your tongue-in-cheek style. JAM is just an overgrown kid whom nobody respects. His foibles are well-known, and he’s really the laughing stock of many.

Having said that, he knows how to live the hedonistic life to the full. Beato lui!

[Daphne – My article was not written tongue-in-cheek. I never use that expression anyway. It’s an archaic cliche. People laugh at different things and different persons. I, for example, think that good subjects for laughter are people in their 50s and 60s boasting about their PhDs and producing their diplomas. John Attard Montalto is vastly superior in every way to, for example, Toni Abela and Anglu Farrugia, particularly intellectually. The difference is that he doesn’t have their working-class preoccupation with what people thing of him and this all-encompassing need to impress – except when it comes to impressing the plebs who vote for him once every five years. His newspaper article about the Piano project, for instance, was one of the best, the most practical, and most concise to be written in this whole long-drawn-out charade. And who of his political colleagues in either the Labour Party or the Nationalist Party would ever being another newspaper article, as he did a couple of weeks ago, with the words “I have been suspected of many things in my time, but never of being a good Catholic.” I quote roughly.]