A very, very stupid deduction Caruana Galizia. At the age of seven our family went to England and I was brought up and schooled in England. I was brought up mostly on RAF camps because my father was an Officer in the British RAF and therefore in elite Officers’ quarters and housing. So much for your attempt to shoulder me with a “chip”. I also went to two elite Grammar Schools in England. Your stupidly wrong calculation and response ensured you did not answer the points I raised – quite typical of your gutter journalism.

ALBERT FENECH

[Daphne – If you left the Lazy Corner for England at the age of seven, you’re not from the Lazy Corner but ‘from’ England. I stand corrected: your chip is not the result of being from the Lazy Corner, but being the Maltese kid “in elite officers’ quarters and housing” in the 1950s. You must have had a really tough time. Did they call you a wog or a wop? Or just a dago?

Incidentally, it is sufficient to say ‘officers’. There is no such thing as an elite officer, only an elite regiment. I see that you also went to ‘elite Grammar Schools’. I am inclined to disbelieve that. You would have been taught about the use of capital letters and the definition of a proper noun.]

I am from Sliema – not your artificial Sliema tal-pepe cocooned in arse-licking grandeur, but the Lazy Corner – and very proud of it. You have a very short and restricted memory otherwise you are not sufficiently savoir faire. Cross-bred mutants of your kind suffer from paranoia of shallow grandeur. As the great Dom Mintoff once said when addressing a meeting in Dingli Street “dawk li joqodu hawn kollha kurnutti”.

ALBERT FENECH

[Daphne – “I am from the Lazy Corner”. Gosh, what a surprise. You don’t say. And you’ve got your Sliema history TRAGICALLY wrong. The original Sliema people were those who lived in Valletta and built the first houses in Sliema – down the hill from Stella Maris church, where I grew up, and along the front – as their summer homes. I don’t wish to be rude about the Lazy Corner, but when houses are built like that, you know why they were built in the first place. Your chip has crippled you, Fenech. A whole life of bitterness about having grown up deprived in the Lazy Corner, when most of Malta is self-made and proud of it. You speak about being from the Lazy Corner as though it’s your personal achievement, rather than your parents’ choice and where they happened to be living at the time. Il-vera dwejjaq ta’ bniedem, keem int miskin.]

I do recall a dim-witted ‘Sliema type’ woman exclaiming that the previous night’s happening was all Mintoff’s fault.

My mother-in-law retorted, to the evident embarrassment of the woman’s husband, that ‘earthquakes have nothing to do with politics’.

Thank you for correcting my spelling.
This has proved right what my father use to tell me.
“You can even learn from those who know less than you”

What makes you so sure?
Was the Italian driver black as well?

[Daphne – No, but he is an outlander. And one of them even called him a Muslim. That’s how bad it is.]

The use of the word “coloured” shows exactly the innate racism. That term used to be used in the United States during segregation. “White Restroom – Colored Restroom”.

the ones in England…..

[Daphne – Which racist attacks in England, Mark? I think you are confusing race and religion. Islam is not a race.]

ALBERT FENECH

[Daphne – You must come from a very backward part of the island, Mr Fenech. I don’t recall anyone in Sliema saying that the minor tremors were an Old Testament-style affliction. And if it had been, surely it would have been a lot higher on th Richter scale. It’s not as though anything happened.]

Then why the attacks go on?

[Daphne – Which ones, Mark? The ones in England or the ones in Malta? And which attacks, specifically?]

Let’s not make a mountain out of a mole hole.
The incident has to be condemned.
But it just happened one of the drivers was coloured
I don’t think this is the first time that bus drivers were involved in arguments, but nothing is made out of it if they are not coloured.

But wonder of wonders because this time she had to be coloured,it instantly reaches the head lines and we are labled as racist..

And by the way,why should they be offended if they are called Black ? It’s nothing but inferiority complex, some are yellow some are white and some are black, so what
.
What should we call our fellow Maltese, we are surely not white either black so what?, so how about Camaleontes?

[Daphne – Mole hill, Silvio, not mole hole. The assault happened PRECISELY BECAUSE she is black.]

My comments are more civilized than yours. I was stating facts that are taking place in Britain, I don’t think that Joseph Muscat or David Cameron incited racial hatred in Britain (bombs in mosques etc).

[Daphne – You’ve got the wrong end of the stick, Mark. David Cameron would have been very incendiary indeed had he said in parliament and outside No. 10 that he planned to defy international law and an ECHR ruling and begin pushing back immigrants. The consequences of that would be predictable. Yet that is just what Muscat did. He is irresponsible, immature and a ‘small pond’ politician. Cameron is not.]