Meanwhile, in a parallel universe

The Minister for Tourism and Films engineers a meeting with Rob Lowe. How sad. If he were a young woman I would understand his visible excitement.

Also in shot: Labour Party billboard star Audrey Harrison, now a Taghna Lkoll appointee to the Malta Film Commission, and that man (the one with the sunglasses and the beard) who sponsors the Prime Minister and Mrs Muscat with The North Face jackets and endurance wear which he imports to Malta.

In return, the Prime Minister has found him a Taghna Lkoll appointment in the private secretariat of his best friend (“we go out and travel as couples”) Edward Zammit Lewis. That’s why he’s there with the Minister.