Same-sex marijuana crematoriums.

Because Malta is going higher and higher.

The Catholic Church has no problem with cremation.

My own mother was cremated and she received the last rites of her Church just before her death and a “body present” funeral mass was held at her Catholic Church.

Sometime later the urn containing her ashes was buried in a grave of a large Roman Catholic cemetery.

All this did not happen in Malta, of course.

I think I shall visit Addolorata Cemetery with a rake and a sieve. Think of the countless cufflinks that must have been thrown into the compost heap.

I saw a family grave cleaned out to bury murdered Carmelo Cl*rk in the summer of 1964.

There were five rotted coffins exhumed, all stacked into each other with the topmost coffin containing all the bones and mouldering cloth from burial suits and some of the largest grinning skulls that I ever saw from the contents of the bottom coffins.

Evarist Bartolo is one of the few politicians in Europe still calling for a ‘multicultural society’.

You see, given that he cannot distinguish between ‘multicultural’ and ‘multiracial’ he must have thought that ‘multicultural’ sounds trendier, unaware that even the Tony-Mr-Diversity-Blairites are now admitting that multiculturalism has pushed up social division and strife.

A mono-cultural, multiracial society, it is now believed, is the ideal, and we’re taught that it’s good to be idealistic.

At least until the age of 10.

There is no real objection to cremation. But, as you said many times, Joseph Muscat is full of spite.

What are the betting odds against the idea that cremation (not to mention same-sex marriage) is being introduced to spite the Catholic Church?

Following in the steps of Mintoff, Joseph would love to renew the battle with the ecclesiastical authorities.

But times have changed and, like Don Quixote, Jo will be tilting against imaginary giants and windmills.

They’ll teach us to be truly European and not a ‘conservative backwater’.

To think we were the only country, along with Germany, that demonstrated greatest resilience during the credit crunch.

Meantime, anyone putting up their flat for sale doesn’t even get the one phone call. So much for kick-starting the economy.

One need only take a sneak peek behind premium automobile sales showrooms, storage areas packed full with uberwagens gathering dust.

The problem Muscat has is the country he inherited; it’s not the one he imagined, everyone had their business, an intricate network of services leading to export, supported by fragmented central government.

EU funding employed to implement development and take SMEs (this country’s reality) to the next step, fully structured autonomy and knowhow.

When Muscat put that young Borg freshman in charge he simply stalled everything. This is not a place where companies expect to wait for pharaonic projects any more.

Busuttil is being accused of not having any ‘concrete proposal’, and why should he if it takes on average all of six months for the PM to acknowledge the minor symptoms of his passport malaise?