Always entertaining but please; the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are hardly anyone’s bread and butter, Gladiator is.

Whatever his ills (and they are myriad) JPO remains a shrewd populist.

And if crassness be the new Labour then you should see the likes of David Agius and so many others hobble to the other side; there’d be so much for you to write about – alas they bide their time.

[Daphne – Ah, that’s the mistake populists make: to treat everybody as though they were thick. Mintoff was excellent at it. If it really were essential to speak to people as though they are stupid and ill-informed so as to reach a wide audience, this website wouldn’t be so popular.]

Overweight and shabbily-dressed? Why, he would be unrecognisable in Republic Street.

When I saw Russell Crowe nine years after he made Gladiator, he was overweight, shabbily-dressed and could walk through the street ALMOST unrecognised – but was still better-looking than most, all the same.

A classic case of narcissism.

As JPO said, “Are you not entertained?”

I believe Asperger’s is now classified as an intellectual disability.

Asperger’s syndrome is not a personality disorder.

“Il ciasso non fa bene, e il bene non fa ciass”.