I do acknowledge though that people my age did put Mintoff and this time Muscat in government. Goes to show that age by itself is neither here nor there.

No one’s using age to ridicule anyone. I just think that newspapers shouldn’t be choosing 70-year-olds to write their op-eds. Note too that Malta has 40-somethings with the mind of an OAP. They shouldn’t have their pieces published either.

Of course there are cases where you have to turn to 70-year-olds for a ‘with-hindsight and experience’ perspective (think of an op-ed on the comparison between 1989 and 1945, for instance). But in the main, opinions should be made and led by younger people. Youths are out for the same reason – not enough experience, not enough maturity.

People of my generation suffered under Mintoff who did his best to ruin our future.

People my age contributed heavily to get rid of the Mintoff government and kept voting the PN and continue to support the party as it is the only party that guarantees freedom.

It is not age but mentality and principles that make a man.

To my generation (yes, age again), he looks like one of those small-islander Maltese with a massive ego, who left Malta to make his fortune, had his bullshit knocked out of him by the real world, realised he couldn’t impress anyone, and so returned to Malta, where his fawning audience is so much more gullible (especially when you drop hints of dangerous missions in Northern Ireland).

We know the score. In the UK he was a nobody among millions. In Malta, he is Somebody Very Important, among a few hundred thousand.

In other words: We. Are. Not. Impressed.

It pains me that there is no decent club or hunt he can retire to (because then he wouldn’t be all over the place with his “opinions”). Should’ve stayed in the UK.

Sort of: “I know my homework seems to have been copied, but, the dog did it”

How old is he? Oh, yes – 79.

That’s easy, both for integration.

“It’s the egonomy, stupid.”