Imma lil-pajjiz jeffettwawh – u kif! U dawk ghandhom id-dritt, bhal ma ghandek int, li taghmel dak li tahseb fil-kuxjenza hu tajjeb ghall-pajjiz.

That’s OK. The divorce debate is just the tip of the iceberg. We got to the point in Malta where a man can declare the earth is flat, not only without fear of being laughed down, but with a guaranteed spot in Xarabank’s panel, with his ludicrous assertions being given equal treatment those of the greatest living scientist’s.

I didn’t get the reference to Manhattan, El Topo, but I see that the incident involves champagne. Not once, but three weekends in a row. It therefore merits my full approval.

I did a bit of sociology fieldwork this weekend, at Level 22, Portomaso Tower. Wall-to-wall with the rich and famous and knee deep in 50-year olds desperately trying to look 20, and acting like it.

Went there with my mate Spadger’s mate Spudgkov, from beyond the Urals, who’d left Malta five years ago and wanted to visit all the new places. Met some interesting characters, such as a Maltese pornstar (a rare find indeed), and a single gay man (that’s “gay and single”, not “the only gay in the village”).

He hit it off with this libertarian-looking fifty-something non-pépé (a refreshing change), who obviously got talking about her voting intentions and kept telling him kemm jaghmel sewwa li gay u single, u mela!

Spudgkov, meanwhile, was chatting up the Russian trophy girlfriend of the pornstar fellow, who must have been twice her age.

Then I woke up on Sunday morning to read yet more Times letters about il-valuri tradizzjonali fil-gzejjer Maltin. I’m as Catholic as they come, but to start from such a false axiom invalidates anything that follows.

Oh and they no longer stock Hendrick’s gin at the bar.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

[Daphne – You can get it at the Phoenicia bar. As for Level 22 – HOW DEPRESSING. No wonder single people over the age of 30 say they want to top themselves at times. Characters straight out of the swingers’ party in Bruno.]

Ok Baxx, I misunderstood you. You mentioned Xarabank, I think Bundy’s Affari Taghna is even worse.

Note: the LE movement is not quoting Christ. That’s some other fervent Bible-bashing Catholic. His argument holds water for real practising Catholics. If for example God forbids killing, a firm believer of God should not approve the killing of people. Same applies for divorce.

I know the feeling when you’re in a country which is run in a way different from what one expects it to be run.

Jien naf b’min se jivvota IVA ghal li jista jinqala’. Allura dawn m’ghandhomx dritt jivvotaw ghax forsi jizzewgu xi darba? Jew meta jaqblilna nifirdu l-Knisja mill-istat u meta jaqblilna nghidu li dawn mhux se jizzewgu u ma taffetwahomx?

Tista tghati ftit ezempji ta kif l-isqof Grech giddeb lil xi hadd? Per ezempju tista turi li l-isqof ma ghajjar lil hadd traditur?

Nispera li hadd ma jaghti kasu, bhalma ghamel il-gvern meta tkellem fuq il-kontijiet tad-dawl.