Am I allowed to call Martin Scicluna a pompous prat?

He’s fast turning into another Lino Spiteri – the silver-haired Conscience of the Nation, disembodied from his own past.

It worked out something in the region of €10 something. I remembered that there is the PN marathon running. So I topped the €10 with what Konrad is estimating to be sparing me on my energy bills. Put it all together and to save further on petrol I rang up the PN and made a modest donation for the occasion.

And bear in mind that the commercial vehicles road licence has increased by 300%.

Consider yourself a very lucky man indeed Connor, for missing that first-hand experience.

Whilst the probability is you would not have written what you have, if you did you would have been rounded up and beaten up hard enough to convince you that you are an enemy of the state.

Tieħdux qatgħa jekk nerġgħu nibdew bir-“ration”. Għal dawk li ma jiftakruhx… konna mmorru għand tal-merċa (il-grocer) u jagħtina skont kemm imiss kull familja, iz-zokkor, id-dqiq u ma nafx x’aktar u jekk tgħaddi tgħaddi u jekk ma tgħaddix tibqa’ tittewweb.

And yes, for those with a short memory, there were fluctuations in the fuel prices + or – during the last PN government.

8 mils is a lot considering that under Mintoff some importers were marched to court incessantly by Price Control for selling products at what was deemed to be 1 or 2 mils over the State’s established price.