It’s very easy to find the source. Just copy a whole paragraph and Google it.

I don’t join the ranks for the same reason that is keeping you from doing it. But my opinion is that entrepreneurship is more about being a risk-taker than being creative. The latter is not a prerequisite, but the former certainly is. And to be completely honest, I’m also very lazy, but, believe or not, that’s apparently a good thing in my profession.

Anyway, unfortunately, statistics and experience are all the tools I have to gauge the innovative qualities of Maltese businesses, and if I had to rely solely on experience, my assessment would be far more negative. I met far too many businesses that are just behind the money, with no innovative drive or values whatsoever.

Of course, I’m speaking in general terms here. There are exceptions, but they are rare and far between. As the proverb goes, “one swallow doesn’t make a summer.”
Consider yourself lucky that you can look around and “see innovation in the making.” I wish my colleagues were as fine as yours. Alas, they are not! (Not that I’m any better)

Back to the National Bank argument, when I said that nationalising the bank was perhaps the right thing to do, I was separating it from the method the government of the time used to force shareholders to relinquish their shares. As I already said, if the alleged threats and violence are proven to have happened, the shareholders should be compensated adequately.

Furthermore, I don’t think the comparison with rape is fair. Rape is a barbaric act, but nationalisation is not intrinsically bad; it’s a tool in the hands of the state to safeguard the economy. People at the time voted for such policy, and that is what they got. Thank goodness, it turned out to be a success in the long run.

Let me just tell you that everything I tell you is 100% true. I have never tried to mislead either you or your readers.

Still, you haven’t told me where this Mark Camilleri piece has appeared … would you oblige?

[Daphne – It’s his blog. I don’t have the domain to hand – camillerimark blogspot or similar.]

Albert Mizzi is also a National Bank shareholder.

That is exactly what I was about to say – x’lanzit ghandu dal bniedem, besides a very very big chip on his shoulder.

Maybe he meant that Lorry Sant built the green areas block by block?

@ Kenneth Cassar

Mark Camilleri is what is known in common parlance as a hypocrite.

Post-graduate students have to pay for their studies and do not receive a stipend.

The University of Malta has become a hive of Marxist thinkers. Lecturers dole out Socialist propoganda disguised as knowledge.

A couple of weeks ago, one student had the courage to walk out half way through a lecture because he could not stomach the lecturer’s blatent political bias.

After he walked out, the lecturer invited anyone who wanted to leave to go ahead. He went on to say that no, his classes were not innocent or unbiased and it was his class so he can say what he wanted. Again, he repeated that those who did not care for his opinion are welcome to leave.

This lecturer is using the lecture as a platform and hiding behind the excuse that the subject is political to propogate his socialist beliefs, with the added privilege of being paid while doing so.

Imagine, a yearly unit made up of two hour lectures every week, listening to this drivel.

I am not in the least surprised by what Camilleri wrote, actually I’m surprised there aren’t more who promote his line of thinking.

Those who come to university from a Labour background feel right at home because they have lecturers who can articulate what they have been taught at home. The lecturers make their beliefs concrete where at home they are intangible or symbolic at most.

This is because they have never experienced a Labour government, but only hear how all their problems will be solved when they are in power.