British humour is actually the best – so subtle but yet so direct.

Imbasta marret Cambridge, Ramona hi! The subtleties of the English language are lost on her.

I remember reading a newspaper report about the ‘fall from his horse’ incident and its aftermath ‘at St Luke’s Hospital’.

The strong man was ‘reported’ to have said to the doctors and nurses, on his regaining consciousness after surgery, “Habbattkom, hux?”

There were quite a few cabbages around who believed the whole shenanigan, however.

Better invest in a decent tug boat then, because at the rate he is going there is no way you will see him on skis – more like a walrus mating.

Also the dictator of Uganda Idi Amin. He himself was the main protagonist in a film that in fact only ridiculed him. All dictators have this in common. Not to mention also Joseph Muscat. If he were not stupid, would he be proud of what Prince Charles said over Mintoff, as he himself narrated this as if it is something to be proud of.

That’s probably true and hardly surprising; the man was an insufferable sore loser. My grandfather and his friends used to have him over at their boċċi club from time to time, and he always told us that whenever Mintoff was losing the game, he’d go over and scatter all the boules and end the game there and then.

He also used to ‘feel ill’ whenever it was his turn to buy the post-game tea and pastizzi and never drink anything not from his flask. So he was quite the paranoid miser with an ego.

Prince Charles should have been warned that irony is beyond many members of the Commonwealth. After all they misconstrue meritocracy, talent, transparency and so many other words in daily use, irony is not for the feeble-minded or the culturally different.