Have you tried walking with a foot on either side of the fence and then lost your balance?

I predict that his days with Carmen are numbered because, removed from power, he will no longer have his uses. Carmen was raised inside the Macina and developed her ‘ethics’ there.

Carmen started her career at the National Tourism Organisation of Malta (now the Malta Tourism Authority) and was quickly promoted under Karmenu Vella once Labour won the election in 1996.

In a way the Nationalists are getting what they deserve – they reward and appease suckers and flatterers or those who merely have plenty of pester-power, such as Marisa Micallef, Franco Debono and Carmen, while hard working and decent people who stick to the rules are repeatedly taken for granted and ignored.

What sort of company depends solely on government contracts?

It would be an interesting situation should there be another papal visit.

No. Cuffs should be showing a trifle, and only the middle button of a three-button jacket should be fastened. Not sharp enough.

Ha naghmillek ftit cultural translation ghax jien veru working class, Daphne. Iriduk. Meta full-blooded ragel Malti bhal hubert isejjahlek ‘sex’, ikun attratt lejk.

[Daphne – Here come the Labour voters straight from Fejsbuk. Jaqaw xi hadd ghamel xi links?]

[Daphne – Ghaliex, trid bilfors tivvota Labour biex tgawdi taht gvern Laburista? Ma tantx nara nies Laburisti ghadhom jghixu bhalma niftakarhom jghixu fl-1987.]

Ironically, small men tend to have big personalities.