Xarabank? You could have run an online search and found the various references to her – including the list of bank deposits frozen in Switzerland.

Soldiering is not work. It’s doing your bit for God and country. Just like the ancient Greeks – and as the Libyan ‘rebels’ are doing now.

Yes.

Strowger exchanges; you did not need phone tapping in those “glorious” days as crossed lines were de rigeur.

Nakita ?

Remember the coal stored out in the open on the wharf at Marsa?

I remember going around households to collect signatures asking the nNationalist government to urgently take in hand the lack of housing. It was then that the first housing estate was built in Zurrieq, back in 1970.

In the meantime there was a change of government and Mintoff also used the housing scheme to favour his supporters.

Studenti fil kors ta’ gwidi li kienu Nazzjonalist jew hadu sehem f’xi azzjoni industrijali organizzata mill-“free trade unions” kollha jehlu mill-ezami ta’ l-ahhar. Jghaddu biss il-Mintoffjani. Dik demokrazzija!

Sorry! Can’t oblige. I know that my MD rankles in some quarters but it identifies me clearly. I hate to hide behind a mysterious first name, nom de plume..