“Fuga dei cervelli”. Those who take life and their careers seriously all leave Italy. I’m not speaking about the ones who are forced by the parents to enter university and graduate at 30 years. But the very bright ones.

I think what you mean is that Malta will never produce a single figure of that calibre, because it stifles all genius. Correct?

That is in fact the case. Only the supremely secure and self-assured can mock themselves and be self-deprecating. But that implies both intelligence and a sense of humour, and there is no sign of either in our Jeffrey.

My mistake, Bohr managed to escape arrest in 1943, fleeing Germany to join the Manhattan project whilst Planck’s youngest son died at the hands of the Gestapo.

Still, a number of physicists belonging to the Heidelberg group and who chose to remain didn’t survive the camps.

Of course there are grounds for denigrating my country, Mr Pullicino Orlando, when people like you are handed these plum jobs, to the detriment of more deserving individuals.

Oh yes, and John Bundy’s too.

Har har. This is MCST, for god’s sake.

And Evarist Bartolo’s, and Robert Musumeci’s …

Jeffrey Pullicino OrlandoCyrus Engerer
‎’IL-KULTURA MALTIJA IXXAQQLEB LEJN IL-HAMALLAGNIJIET’
Is-Sinjura Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia-‘That Maltese social culture tends towards the abrupt, brusque, ill-mannered, loud and rude is beyond dispute.’ (Loud and Proud-12/8/11)
about an hour ago

Gabriel Cassar-Torregiani Jeffrey, after sympathy are we?
about an hour ago

Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando Just posting what she said about you Gabriel. I’m assuming you’re Maltese with a surname like Cassar Torregiani.
54 minutes ago

Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando Or perhaps you’re one of those who believes himself to be above the rest because you speak in what would probably be considered to be pidgin English in an English speaking country.
52 minutes ago

Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando If so – I sympathise with YOU
52 minutes ago