Of course this is a matter of resignation coming as it is from the Minister for Home Affairs and National Security.

As the top criminal lawyer (aka the top lawyer favoured by criminals) it explains (more than anything else) such warped thinking and despicable behaviour.

With so many gaffes perpetrated in such a short time in this most sensitive area for good governance, we are not-so-slowly and very surely moving towards a dangerous precipice such as that experienced under Mintoff and KMB – bar the violence.

I’m starting to believe the speculation about the trampling of human rights and the eventual confrontation with the EU with all the consequences it entails.

This is not meant to instill a sense of helplessness or fear but the Opposition should better concentrate on essentials and prepare itself (and not only in Parliament) for when this bad fruit ripens.

After the 1976 election the PN was to some extent in the same situation as today. After a long period of gestation came the spark that in 1979 (Black Monday) kindled the people’s awareness to rally around the PN.

Something tells me we might have to trace the same or similar route.

That too.

Well, we certainly got one, didn’t we.

Unfortunately, idiots vote for idiots.

And because idiots breed idiots, the gene for brains is being bred out of the Maltese population.

Dilettante voters make for the election of dilettante politicians, m f.

We vote for those with whom we most closely identify.

Of course it was, Felix. His wife was there, greeting the guests and “representing the prime minister”.

I’d say that an IQ close to zero is the real problem, Joe.

People like David make Labour’s luck. Malta is a place where they grow on trees.

Nothing wrong in discussing news and current affairs in front of children. It’s actually a good thing.

What’s wrong is besotted parents (or pretend-besotted) inflicting amusing anecdotes about children and pets on people who don’t give a damn about either, but who are too polite to say so.

Parents who talk about their children are self-obsessed and bore everyone else.

Quite literally, even in terms of size and shape.

“Dr Mallia said he would insist that recruits had a tertiary level of education. It was unacceptable that some people were unable to write a report. Ideally, members of the service should have a background of of international studies to enable them to analyse what was happening abroad. The service also needed people versed in legal affairs and in financial matters for investigation of money laundering.”

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130409/…/manuel-mallia.46488...

He must have changed his mind and a Form IIC report will probably be enough.

U mela hafna karti tal-incova, as Mintoff used to say.