That most famous piece of his writing is not a description of his own actions, but an explanation of why he acted and an encouragement to others to do the same.

And he did not wait until the outbreak of war to speak. He spent eight years imprisoned in the concentration camps at Sachsenhausen and Dachau.

All the more reason to use it. Provoke them. Sooner or later you’ll inspire another act of resistance and soon we’ll have the spark of a revolution.

My initial assessment of you was 100% correct.

The bane of Malta is the way society is dominated by a large multitude of people who were born with an unimpressive intelligence quotient to begin with, and whose genetic problems were then compounded, instead of being alleviated, by social conditioning and an education system designed deliberately to truncate their powers of analysis even further.

I am merely pointing out that perception of a woman doing the same thing would be different, and so the response to the interview would be different too.

There is another problem: mine is the Maltese equivalent of Jeremy Paxman’s way of speaking. While people in Britain have no problem with that, in Malta speaking that way is absolutely not allowed.

We are all supposed to sound working-class or lower middle class, or as though we grew up speaking nothing but a certain kind of Maltese which is nothing like the Maltese spoken by those around me.

Lots of people in Malta react very badly indeed to voices and accents like mine.

Maltese people freeze and take on the stance of ‘invisible bystanders’ when things like this happen.

Women can’t get away with that kind of thing, especially not in Malta.

Jeremy Paxman is perceived as confident, authoritative and persistent, but Jennifer Paxman would be perceived as a ball-breaking pushy bitch.

If I were a man, perception of me and what I do and say would be entirely different.

David Thake is great fun on radio, but those who think so would dismiss his female equivalent as a piece of work and not fun at all.