“If I may, he’s the perfect example of someone overtaken by events.”

He was clearly already overtaken by events at the time of the interview. Reno Bugeja made this very clear with his questions. Reno made Joseph re-live his own political contradictions, including that infamous “Made in Brussels.”

If I may, he’s the perfect example of someone overtaken by events. Tricky thing politics, especially those of appeasement.

4 degrees, one of them a doctorate, a job as a journalist part time, a job as a financial consultant full time, another job as a member of the European parliament full time and then a job as a leader of the Opposition full time, not to mention a husband and a father of two kids – all this in around 15 years.

How the hell does this guy manage to find the time!

[Daphne – People the world over manage to raise children and work, DV, especially when they are men. If men don’t work just because they have children (and then don’t even look after them), they’re called bums. As for the degrees, spare me. One of my sons had three degrees at the age of 22 and another was in the LSE’s doctoral programme at 21. The other was already developing apps, software and portals for a major international news organisation at 24, having been entirely self-taught because his two degrees are in international relations and financial journalism. And unlike Joseph, they do their own shopping, cooking, cleaning and laundry. I say this for no reason other than that you clearly require some explanation as to why I find a man of 40 with four banal degrees, two children, a wife and job singularly unimpressive. I cite myself as an example because others might not care to be mentioned, though I know they feel the same way and for similar reasons. I hope that perhaps your tone is sarcastic and that you are not really this daft.]

Are you implying that mass of hair lost > mass of fat gained?

Here’s my plan for Joseph Muscat, and he’ll thank me for it if he chooses to follow my advice:

Five to six small meals a day, lots of fibre and vegetables, 20g of protein and no fat.

He should eat 95% of his energy requirements. The extra 5% will be made up for from his own body fat.

Daily one-hour cardio session (and that means running or cycling, not “immur il-gym”).

He’ll be greeting his abs at the end of six months.

Wehlet fil-benniena socjalista. Vide the last video, Ciccio.

Any allegations that he gained weight are hereby denied. Haven’t you noticed that he lost a lot of hair?

This is from Muscat’s old facebook page:

Muscat graduated Bachelor of Commerce in Management and Public Policy from the (University of Malta, 1995), Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Public Policy (University of Malta, 1996), Master of Arts in European Studies (University of Malta, 1997) and Ph.D in Management Research (University of Bristol, 2007).

Not one of his degrees is in economics.