We don’t need criminal defamation in Britain, we have developed thick skins, something that certain people in Malta should have also, namely John Dalli.

Fits like a glove, doesn’t it?

Maybe someone could obtain a hard copy of the speech, translate it to Maltese and mail copies to Joseph and Franco.

Yes we do, but our version is called ‘Section IIc’.

It is closer to abolition, not reform.

I take it that you mean – no official comedians.

So yes, when you all go and vote, remember that under the Labour Party just looking at someone was a crime, let alone saying something.

Rowan Atkinson is brilliant – makes me proud to be an anglophile – but the memories evoked by his mentioning the ‘looking at me in a funny way’ (at 2.29) more than tempered my amusement.

[Daphne – We have the same law under the catch-all of the maintenance of public order and the public peace. And we also have criminal defamation, which Britain does not.]