Gil, your version is a masterpiece of report-writing, especially if the EU is paying for it by the page.

The ‘Coordinating Board for Cultural Projects’ is also a little gem in this genre. They’re not going to actually carry out any projects but only coordinate the ones produced by others.

And, of course they won’t be utilising culture but only working towards utilising it or, rather, its “potential”. No, the purpose is not to restructure society but only to serve as catalyst for restructuring which, presumably, will be done by someone else. In chemistry a catalyst influences a process without actually becoming part of it.

By the way, we already have a Council for Culture and the Arts (Chairman Albert Marshall) to coordinate cultural projects and events.

It’s outdated. There is now a new board which includes someone describing himself as the “minority leader” (no kidding) in the Valletta Local council.

Malta Kollha Taghhom – u bil-provi.

‘utilising the potential of culture as a catalyst of social restructuring’ means that they are going to ram ghana down our throats.

It will not be the appointed red-assed boys and girls sitting on boards. No.

The first cuts would be in culture. U mhux xorta.

We all know how Labour-Socialist/capitalists think about culture. Think V18 and Jasan Micallef. Think City Gate Project.

Think about labour’s campaign’s song, a copied one. There’s more to add if one thinks of what culture was meant to be in the Mintoff Era. A North Korea in the sun?