HIS was an honourable death by an ungrateful people.

Does Coraggio fugiamo come after “take cover”?

Ciccio, he has already done that when he increased – or rather exploded the licence fee for trucks and vans.

My thoughts exactly…expressed a couple of months ago.

“Hijja elezzjoni illi fijja l-poplu jghid jekk iridx lil dan il-gvern ikompli bil-politika tieghu li jnaqqas il-kontijiet …..”

I thought that the electorate had already decided to have lower bills in the last general elections.

Why is he tieing the result of the MEP elections to the bills again?

I take this as a hint that if he wins a majority, he will introduce new taxes to make good for the loss of revenues on the lower utility bills.

I think ‘Zapatero’ (the Generalissimo) was quoting from Don Quixote.

Still trying to drag Gonzi back into the ring.

It’s the teeth and that horrible mouth that I find so disturbing.

I shoot from the shoulder, in nice, controlled, three-round bursts.

Take cover, aim, fire, manoeuvre, take cover.

Mument tal-prova, you know, do or die. Armageddon is nigh. A time-warp — so anachronistic in this day and age.

The metaphor of soldiers battling against God-knows-what is so old-fashioned that no European politician uses it anymore, not even those from the old Warsaw Pact.

Such theatrical terminology belongs to a bygone age and would have sounded realistic on Stalin’s lips as he rallied the Russians to fight “the great patriotic war” during Operation Barbarossa.

I think not even the offspring of the 1962 suldati tal-azzar (now many of then deceased) will be impressed by such poor rhetoric.