Right you are!

Malta invented lateral thinking, something our friends on the other side of the fence seem to ignore. At their own peril, of course.

A big LIKE, and prosit to whoever produced it.

Cassola is extremely offensive when he calls both parties ‘mafjuzi’.

The mafia isn’t something planned by a restricted group of people. It feeds on ignorance, indolence and fatalism. It enforces its power by creating networks and enforcing concentrated clientelism between politicians and the populace. It is a two way system.

The mafia knows how to influence, humiliate and impose silence.

Mafiosi follow codes of honour linked to a perverse sense of foreboding. They will incite against the state by replacing any possibilities provided with their own.

The mafia will peddle drugs, provide loans, distort business, infiltrate politics, enforce its codes of conduct, sponsor sport, build hosuing estates. It will control demand by stuiffling individual initiative.

Somehow I don’t need to distinguish which party puts in the effort to eradicate these traits.

I also manage to recognise which party refuses to give up the same kind of influence over ‘its’ people.

Arnold, do stop abusing words and their meaning. You sound opportunistic, snide and callous.

History has shown that it is the foot soldiers who have won the wars and not the generals, colonels or admirals. At the end of the who gives a fuck so long as Joey is kept out of Heaven’s Door.