Comments on: What, no bodyguards and aides, outriders, bells and whistles? https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 22 Aug 2015 08:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050122 Sat, 22 Aug 2015 08:46:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050122 196cm is 6’4″ – that’s only four inches taller than Cameron and his six feet, but as you will know from experience, those four inches account for an exponential increase in real and perceived size.

So let alone seven or eight inches. Muscat is shorter than I am and I am 5’7″ or 8″.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050101 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:33:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050101 In reply to Pepe`.

184cm is exactly six feet.

What do you mean, that’s it?

]]> By: Pepe` https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050097 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:19:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050097 184cm! That’s it?

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050087 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:19:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050087 You are right. I should have qualified what I said with “in my lifetime”. I was born when Borg Olivier was prime minister.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050082 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:46:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050082 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

Only if he were a woman.

In a man, that kind of thing is seen as authoritative and glamorous.

He is also the three things no Maltese political leader has ever been but which are the natural physical attributes of a perceived leader: tall, handsome and elegant.

Put somebody out of Cameron’s mould next to Muscat in a debate, and what do you think the result would be even before either one of them has opened his mouth?

For a start, Muscat would be completely intimidated.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050079 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:41:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050079 Can we stick to the subject, please.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050080 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:41:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050080 In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Wouldn’t the Maltese have him down as imniehru mxammar?

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050070 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:17:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050070 Joseph itir b’xejn.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050065 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:03:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050065 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

You must be joking. He’d win hands down (if he were Maltese).

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/what-no-bodyguards-and-aides-outriders-bells-and-whistles/#comment-3050064 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:59:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68199#comment-3050064 Ah, but if David Cameron stood for election in Malta, he wouldn’t manage half a dozen votes (and that’s including mine and Daphne Caruana Galizia’s).

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