So was Joseph Muscat elected, just under a year ago.

The conditions that produce an election result, democratic as the process may have been, are no guarantee of what ensues.

A democratic prime minister operating in a true democracy should be serving the nation and not the interests of his own party, a foreign power, or quite bluntly his own and those of his business associates jointly.

The level of transparency by which that government operates would be but one indicator.

They can play musical chairs, but the players are the same and so is the music.

Here is a more realistic take on the Ukrainian crisis: http://www.activistpost.com/2014/02/the-winners-of-ukraine-revolution.html

I don’t think that will have a bearing on his “due diligence”. We can build a block of flats for social housing with the money we get off him and his family if he gets himself a Maltese passport.

Last week, George ‘Alla ħares nidħlu fl-Ewropa’ Vella urged the world not to impose sanctions on Ukraine and tried to imply that the protesters were as violent as the government forces.

As a commenter said under this article, ‘Labour: always on the wrong side of history.’

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140219/local/malta-calling-for-dialogue-as-ukraine-situation-worsens.507475

Yanukovych’s been indicted of ordering the murder of over seventy demonstrators, Putin’s just ordered a number of armoured divisions to group at the border.

His country ‘residence’ turned out the usual tacky gold-plated everything, tons of documents, transactions and money trails fished from the frozen pond.

Ghidli kif taghmel xahrek u nghidlek x’int.

There’s Dom Mintoff’s lots on auction this week, seven hundred of them. I’m under strictest instructions to refrain from my periodic tendency to kitsch.

Amongst others, ‘riding and smoking gear’. What, no speedos?

If Malta was a normal country based on meritocracy, Michelle Muscat would have been a typical factory worker on the assembly line.

Everything about her (look, hair arrangement, posture, carriage) screams “servile.”