Marie Louise Collier Price and President Emeritus Ugo Miscued Botnick

It looks like nobody at Times of Malta subs Martin Scicluna’s column and that not even the editor reads it before it goes to print.

And Scicluna doesn’t even bother reading it back after he’s written it, either, before sending it to his editor (who doesn’t read it), presumably because he’s too arrogant to believe that he can make mistakes.

The online edition of his column yesterday will have been changed, but reading the print edition I was fascinated to find that there are some new public personages in Malta, thanks to Mr Scicluna’s auto-correct:

President Abell (this all the way through the column, repeated many times)
President Emeritus Ugo Miscued Botnick
President Emeritus Fenice Adamik
And Malta’s new president, Marie Louise Collier Price

At least Mr Scicluna and I agree on what he called “the bread-and-circuses approach to the traditional inauguration ceremony”. Well, it goes without saying that he would share my horror of this profanity. It is only Peter Apap Bologna who pretends he loves hamallagni because he is so very democratic, despite being the most appallingly condescending snob in reality.