The outside world is totally different for the educational one and i still believe that our educational systems fails miserably in this regard (by putting all emphasis on marks, grades, exams and classes of degrees).

As soon as Malta enters into an the agreement with Switzerland to revoke its banking confidentiality clause, on grounds of tax evasion.

It can be done.

There is no mention by B-C of Mintoff having a better chance of making a name for himself, even less that “Bartolo junior could afford to go to Oxford regardless of whether or not he got the scholarship”. Bartolo’s parents were both dead and his family could never afford to finance his studies at Oxford.

Bartolo was described as “still a bit young in character” whereas Mintoff, who was 22 and already a science graduate (1937) and in 1938 an engineering student was seen to be “more mature and more likely to make his mark at Oxford than Bartolo”.

I wish someone would prove it. I had heard this from an elderly gentleman.

My mistake… it was his nephew.

He’s lucky he never made it to the Commons. His daughter could have thrown the horse manure on him.

And someone should check whether the manure came from the Police stables in Marsa.

Mintoff’s real ambition was to have a seat in the Commons.

The nearest he came to achieving that was through his daughter and her horse manure.

I never knew Gustu Bartlu had a son.

This is most intriguing.