Oh! I like that one. Really well coined ‘General Idi Amin Complex’ superb.

Idi Amin was not a General but a Field Marshal.

You know, just like engineering PhDs over here are not just Mr or even Dr, but Dr Ing..

They are called Mister due to historical facts. In the beginning for surgery, physicians used to call in barbers. They were “misters” and not medical doctors

Wrong – dentists love to adopt the Dr. Even though they are no such thing.

Surgeons are a different matter altogether and you cannot equate a dentist and a surgeon. A surgeon is called Mr. After having been a Dr. Kind of does the full circle.

Muscat’s doctorate title was issued by a genuine university. Whether it is deserved is another matter.

So that makes Edward Skunkluna a Proffss. of Mintoffianomics Emeritus.

It’s not the former MEP status that really warms his smug little ego. It’s the “PROFSSS”. Edward Scicluna is an academic at heart. In the Maltese sense, you understand. Just like Alfred Sant – sorry, I meant DOKTORR Alfred “1599” Sant.

The continuum between Maltese academia, politics and power is a field of research as yet unexplored. Mark Anthony Falzon might wish to examine it, but then, er, he’s one of ’em himself.

He is also an “MEP Emeritus.”