He wears boots routinely. Perhaps there’s something we should be told.

I don’t remember six months going by without headlines about this or that FDI.

It seems all they have planned is hoping they’ll have a power station in two years’ time with reduced fuel costs.

Anything else is none of their business. Nothing except the usual cowboys moving in with their dozers. That’s all they understand.

Muscat himself said so, unless the construction industry is set rolling, nothing will move.

Brace yourselves.

Only last time it was Gaddafi and his children’s allowance.

We got Jamahariya clone passports, compulsory Arabic, port control taken over by the colonel’s military, major restrictions on trade, travel, university access in the name of some blighted cultural revolution, you name it, we had it.

Journalists were arrested, facts turned to fiction, foreigners frowned upon, parliament reduced to a glorified party congress, corruption became, to all intents and purposes acknowledged and instituionalised.

At least Mintoff was in your face. Muscat doesn’t simply because he’d be ridiculous in swimming trunks.

He always wore those boots. Some people are only realising now. Others excuse him and some others are still on another planet.