Just read the story to my 8-year-old this evening – she enjoyed it. H P Baxxter, we want more ‘The Story of a ……’ please.

You’re the only one who got it. I must start publishing Baxxter’s Notes To Baxxter alongside my literature.

(Just like those smug prats of the Akkademja, AND they get to set the A Level syllabus too….)

Baxxter isn’t insulting Sant for having to use wigs, he’s simply using the wig as a narrator because it is one of the few inanimate objects that seem to have been present throughout his career. It’s Sant’s political career here that he’s tackling here, not his wig.

There is nothing in poor taste in criticising and mocking the bigwigs, even for their wigs. It’s their choice to wear them.

You failed, Baxxter – you need to be more concise.

My definition of bad taste is the way Dr Sant is behaving here:

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/look-at-this-lovely-member-of-the-european-parliament-in-the-making/

You want me to write in dispassionate and dry manner like Martin Scicluna? Then hire me.

Until then, I will keep writing in whichever style I deem suitable.

I wager you are not familiar with publications such as Private Eye. You would probably disapprove of some of its most famous features, such as “Me And My Spoon”, or Margaret Thatcher’s fake diary written by Denis Thatcher, or the one about the contents of the Queen Mother’s will.

What exactly is in poor taste here? The wig or the target? The fact that a wig seeks to correct the biological fact of male baldness, when the world is full of bald men who have no such problem with it?

Perhaps you would rather have me write the Story Of A Pair of Spectacles (Konrad Mizzi). Or the Story Of A Dental Appliance (Louis Galea at one point). Or should I write about other accessories? The Story of a Handbag (Michelle Muscat).

I’ll wager too that some of you will add a demure “Alla jahfirlu” after mentioning Mintoff or de Marco. It’s these little things that block the democratic process.

You may think I’m demeaning myself by mocking Alfred Sant, but I’m doing you all a favour. In twenty plus years of a political career, this man has never been confronted. He is held in awe because he can read, and he even writes!

Is this this way we wish to build a 21st century democracy? By fawning condescension and sterile commentary?

I won’t have it. It takes mockery to build freedom of thought, from which springs democracy. Look at China. Look at Saudi Arabia.

Look at Malta.

The free West was built on mockery and biting commentary.

Besides which, I’m not even sure I mocked anyone. I hate to deconstruct literature – an author never should, and that’s the critics’ job. But the story told by the wig is true in every detail.

You couldn’t even take me to court for libel there. Is it the talking, reasoning wig that bothers you? Then perhaps you had better turn to tomes like “Habib u Mexxej”. For that’s all we Maltese are capable of.

In any case, I predicted a win for the owner. So it’ll hardly damage him.