“Mur l’hemm” is more akin to the English “get lost”.

Stopper or lid, not cap.

It is never a good sign when the leader of a party, who is also the leader of the opposition, tackles the interviewer and not the questions.

Can you imagine David Cameron telling an interviewer to “go away!”?

Chavsville

so?

It is very clear at 50:38.

http://public.di-ve.com/streaming/on_demand_media_streamer.aspx?id=5254&encoding=8&backUrl=streaming%2fon_demand_event_encoding.aspx%3fid%3d5254

Will this be his manner of speech in international fora when he becomes prime minister?

…and you forgot to mention Jason Micallef.

Indeed, making fun of Daphne that she leads a senseless life is precisely the opposite of democracy.

This can be referred to as verbal violence and usually happens when people find that their counter-arguments have been depleted and they are suddenly and uncomfortably with their backs to the wall.

On Lou’s topic, there is no denying his political colours.

However, Lou remains one of the best interrogative and well balanced journalists our media has seen.

Indeed, Labour’s stumbling block with Lou is precisely because he is very good at what he does.

He will take your argument, dissect it with a surgeon’s knife, finds the virus of your argument and challenge you on it.

PN ministers and backbenchers readily let themselves be dissected and in return lay down valid or invalid counter arguments for us to judge.

Labour, on the other hand, will steer clear of the knife and will counter-attack with other topics that might be (more often not) relevant as a political agenda, but not for the question posed by the interviewer.

A hint of irony, a personal comment and a bad sense of humour is also thrown into the mix to create confusion and buy some time.

However, repeatedly questioning Lou ‘will you vote labour in the next election?’ at the end of the programme is probably Muscat’s retaliatory move in order to cover up for his interview that went bad by demonising Lou’s image with Labour apologists.

Lou was also surprised that after so many years Muscat has started calling him by his name and surname together, which is another desperate but probably successful attempt to make him unpopular.

This is the guy who will be running the country soon, or so we think. Muscat’s desperate underlying tone makes me think that he is far from comfortable on the outcome of the next election.