Back to the Future indeed, Maryanne. They will give their back to the future and will look straight back to the 1970s.
As for the roadmap, haven’t they heard about GPS and satellite navigation systems?

Josephine, why not? Charity begins at home…

Duminku Mintoff is NOT Wenzu Mintoff’s father but his uncle

He will not be writing the programme. It will be in atlas form and titled: Roadmap for Malta – Back to the Future. The latest buzzword is roadmap.

Ara veru t-tifel ta’ Alfred Sant (politikament). A lot of empty words and promises and cliches.

Naf persuna li niesha kellhom jitilqu minn Malta dak iz-zmien. Kienu marru l-Awstralja bhala immigranti illegali, biex tghaxxaq.

Kienet pjuttost komuni l-bicca. Kienu taparsi jitilghu holiday u mbaghad joghsfru. Illum din il-persuna regghet qieghda Malta (ilha hawn min-1991). Jekk issemmilha dawn l-affarijiet tghidlek li dan kollu ghadda u mar u ma nistghux nibqghu nghixu fl-imghoddi.

Il-punt tieghi hu li thambaq kemm thambaq jekk ma tkunx ghixt dawk iz-zminijiet ta’ genna fuq l-art *ahem* qatt ma tista’ tifhem il-biza’ u dwejjaq li kien hakimna bhala pajjiz. Ghal nies li ma jiftakru xejn minn dan qishom qed jaraw l-irvelli tal-Egittu u t-Tunizija fuq it-television.

Min qatt jista’ jinsa dak il-Hadd fil-ghodu fl-ewwel faccata ta’ Il-Mument tqum u tara ritratt ta’ ragel – Raymond Caruana – minxur ma l-art mahsul bid-demm? Jew, l-ghada tal-Barrani, dak ir-ritratt ta’ dik il-mara li kienu gidmulha mnehirha? (GIDMULHA MNEHIRHA ta. Lanqas l-annimali).

Jew ghax tkun tmur skola tal-Knisja, malli tinzel mill-karozza tal-linja, girja wahda sad-dar ghax jekk jaqbduk iqattghulek l-uniformi u jisirqulek il-basket?

Sa ftit zmien ilu dawn kienu affarijiet li tiftakar fihom, ixxengel tnejn rasek u tghid “Kif konna nghixu dak iz-zmien, hux?”

Illum ma baqghetx hekk. Meta tara n-nies li regghu qed jitfaccaw fuq quddiem tal-Labour jaqbdek il-bard u terga tiftkar minn xiex kienu ghaddewna.

Dan l-ahhar ghaddieli hsieb. Min jaf jekk l-ghazla ta’ Joseph Muscat (li, incidentalment, niftakru l-iskola waqt dak iz-zmien glorjuz) kinitx orkestrata biex jirnexxilhom jitfghu sieqhom gol-bieb?

Nghjiduha kif inhi dawn grieden xjuh, lil Joseph Muscat idahhluh u johorguh mill-but minghajr lanqas biss ikun jaf x’laqtu.

‘To whom was Eddie Fenech Adami shouting “Barra”?’

Colonel John Cachia, the head of the armed forces, went to parliament to threaten the leader of the Opposition who had been speaking about him. Fenech Adami said that when Colonel Cachia went to Tal-Barrani in the evening, to see what was happening (a mass demonstration of anti-government protestors was under attack by thugs and the police), the thugs had begun to shoot at the colonel from behind their makeshift barricades but the colonel behaved as though nothing was happening.

Instead of reacting to being shot at, Colonel Cachia reacted to Fenech Adami talking about it in parliament.

Bundy KARNIVAL is-sena kolla

U forsi wkoll issemmi min kien dak l-ispettur li meta il-pulizija resqu lil Pietru Pawl Busuttil il-qorti u akkuzawh bil-qtil ta’ Raymond Caruana beda jimbotta lil min beda jaqra l-akkuzi u jheggu biex jaqra sewwa u jaqra car l-akkuzi infondati li kellu miktubin.