Bred in the role as Beppe would be by his father. In your case, no doubt your father is a smart ass with a good line in sarcasm.

[Daphne – Beppe Fenech Adami wasn’t ‘bred’ in any role. He has several siblings. None of them are politicians. Presumably, they were ‘bred’ the same way.]

It the pens from witch angle you look at it.

I’m not so sure NET news will either.

He was bred for the role, was he?

What is this – The Maltese Crufts?

And we have to explain what’s wrong about this.”

The point you make is obvious.

But let us see it from another angle. Let us say I am a client of the criminal lawyer and that the Police is proceeding against me in a case in front of the criminal court. What am I supposed to think in this case? Why should my lawyer be seen to be consorting with the police?

[Daphne – Where does ‘wrath’ come into it, exactly? If I have it on good authority that the top man at the CID, an assistant police commissioner, has gone on a jaunt with businessmen and the Law Commissioner who is also a criminal defence lawyer, that is news in the public interest. Am I supposed to keep this information to myself out of consideration for the consequences (there will be none) to the man in question? I did the decent thing in ringing him for his side of the story, and I would have reported it verbatim. He refused and was hostile. I reported it verbatim. I think you are very, very confused about the role of the press in a democracy, let alone about the role and status of a crime investigator and a law commissioner, ditto.

Going on jaunts like this is UNprofessional. There is no such thing as a police pedigree. These things are not hereditary.]

This is MLP all over again. As Burke once said “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”