“What other country does that?”

Quite a few. I have a friend of mine who teaches in the UK at a government school in North London. She has a number of students who don’t even speak one language properly because their parents speak different regional dialects from their own country which they had to flee because of persecution.

The school has a system to help them. Like they have a system to help others who are at a disadvantage, like those who need a bit of help because they have dyslexia.

Incidentally, Carlos, next time do what I do and post in the language you know best. My Maltese isn’t very good, so I speak and write in English. You should have written that entry in Maltese.

My mother is English, so we spoke English at home. When it came to school, I was at a natural disadvantage and as a 4 year old not old enough to pack up.

As primary school progressed I was constantly at a disadvantage since things that came naturally to everyone else didn’t for me. Did I ask that things change to accommodate me? Did my parents? No. I went to private lessons from the age of 7 and didn’t stop until I got my O-levels.

And I got my O-levels, in spite of being at a disadvantage my whole life because of speaking English and in spite of having to face many teachers who shared your bigoted and far right views.

If it hadn’t been for my parents and the generosity of some teachers, and my work ethic, I would not have passed and would have spent my life without O-levels.

You see, we are all born at a disadvantage in some way or another. You just can’t sit back and cry about it. It is there to test you and build you. Today I have a work ethic that is unstoppable, and the ability to memorise pages and pages of text, something that serves me very well these days.

Speaking of Varist, he has just been appointed Acting PM whilst Muscat is away. Presumably the Deputy PM is with him.

Free as in, in return for support and vote.

English speaking child. What stop you from speaking also Maltese. Do you expect that we change our way of teaching to accommodate persons like you? What other country does that? If you are in Rome do as the Roman do. One should know the language of his residential country or else pack up.

[Daphne – Edward is Maltese.]

I have known a Labour party appointed High Commissioner admitting that “at times he felt that he was running an MLP club”.

It seems that Prime Minister Muscat wants to go one better and turn his office into a PL club.

“Free” – do you mean as in “paid for by China”?