We should all be students of the law, my friend.

@ A. Dimech
It is the onus and obligation of the PN to keep history alive. Daphne is doing it at a personal risk. This is not fair although very much appreciated. It is MPs who got 500 euros increase per week.

Of course I am thick. What’s your excuse?

Jesus H. Christ, Bystander, are you thick? When the British “left” in 1979, it wasn’t the British, but their by now tiny military contingent in tiny military bases. They were not responsible for law and order in Malta.

And don’t give me the usual “but I was born after 1987” bullshit. You know how to use an ipod. You should know your current events.

I was there in the thick of it at The Times when it was burning.

Fusellu was in charge. When a fire engine arrived, the driver, smiling, shouted to one of the policemen that he had no water. The policeman responded: “Go and fill up!”

Fusellu oversaw that the burning-down went as planned. Joe Grima, then a minister, said in parliament that he regretted The Times was not obliterated.

A few of us were saved by a ladder brought in to St Ursula Street and put up to reach us leaning out of the windows, through the efforts of Mgr (God Bless Him) Calleja from the Emigrants’ Commission a few doors away

Before they left in 1979?