Many (Maltese) men tend to lash out and lose all reason when I speak, even in conversation round the lunch-table, so it’s not just behind my back or when I’m not around.

All you have to do to understand why is to spend some time assessing the communication style of (Maltese) women.

Maltese men are raised to believe, even subconsciously, that women are their inferiors, are a separate category, and should be apologetic when they talk.

My generation of Maltese men really bugs me. Those a generation older are even worse – can’t bear them. The younger generation seems to have improved and I get along a lot better with them.

It’s not my communication style that’s the problem, but my communication style in the context of my gender.

The lease agreement which he published says that all rent due – 14,000 euros – is to be paid when the entire lease is up.

Let us make a reasonable supposition. If the report was written by the likes of Andrew Azzopardi, Joe Azzopardi, Robert Musumeci and a couple of other PN hangers-on who will be furious if I mention them, then it doesn’t surprise me at all that they should dislike you.

I’ve seen perfectly reasonable men lose all reason and lash out violently at the mere suggestion that your method is the right one in any democratic country.

If you are in arrears, the landlord can move for eviction.

More fool they. The Nationalist Party ‘officials’ who thought that way failed to understand – catastrophically – that I am not unusual but 100% representative of a key social group that kept them in power year after year, and which in 2013 deserted the PN for Labour (though I did not).