Excuse my stevedore language, but left field me arrse. They have a line-up that’s almost completely Labour: Lino Spiteri as forward, captaining the team, Mario Vella as prop, John Attard Montalto free to dazzle us as fly-half, Owen Bonnici as number-5 lock, Helena Dalli as cheerleader, Andrew Azzopardi as fullback, Austin Sammut as masseur, boring the pants off everyone and thus anaesthetising us against the Labour onslaught, Michela Spiteri on the sidelines cheering on Labour, and so on and so forth.

The only one to talk any sense is Mark Anthony Falzon, whom I’ve taken on as reserve in my dream team.

Possibli dan l’anqas il-bravi Ex pulizija li hemm fil-partit tal-Labour ma’ kienu jafuh lil dan Gerdes?

Ara veru certi nies qedin fil-Partit Laburista ghal xejn jew biex jakkwistaw xi haga ghalihom jew ghal uliedhom bhal ma’ ghamlu ta’ qabilom u bil-korruzzjoni u mhux bil-kapacita.

The cherry on the cake was today’s daily with the editor deciding to portray a huge photograph and a detailed report on the Partit Laburista’s Gozo mass meeting. I was under the impression that the once respected paper was an excellent example of what an independent paper should be.

[Daphne – Of course they have to report on the mass meeting. But I agree with you about the newspaper columns. A newspaper’s opinion columns should always reflect the views of the majority of its readers. Balance does not come into it, and a preponderance of opinion columns in direct conflict with what the majority of readers think is a bad idea. It just alienates readers. The only problem is that editors can’t know what their columnists plan to write, and sometimes things come out of left field.]

wilhelm andreas gerdes
May 2nd 2010, 10:28 article

[Daphne – It’s not an article but a comment beneath this report: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100502/local/company-convicted-in-vat-fraud-given-contract.305402 ]

Acually, it was more of a “moviment tal-mahdumin”.

Dimmi con chi vai, e ti diro’ chi sei! How true, indeed.

Make that attracted to rejects.

― Winston Churchill