Only a mad person would consider them tainted by association just because they happen to be eating at the same restaurant.

Compassion doesn’t even begin to come into it.

If you wish to hector people about compassion, you have plenty of scope for doing that right now with all those Maltese backwoodsmen out in force on the internet screaming about Muslim invaders.

You have the most astonishingly distorted perspective. I didn’t even notice the people in the background. They’re completely irrelevant.

Clearly, the “environment you were brought up in” – as though you should talk about how you were brought up when you are middle-aged and should be reforming and shaping your own attitudes – did not teach you that police/political/business corruption is the main issue here.

But then if I knew who you are I probably wouldn’t find it funny at all.

Corrupt people are magnetised by the Labour Party, to the embarrassment of those good people who vote Labour for reasons of political philosophy (whatever that may be).

Corrupt ‘Nationalists’, on the other hand, are not really Nationalist supporters at all, but individuals who butter their bread (and butter up politicians and power brokers) according to what suits their acquisitive tendencies.

In the last general election, they shifted to Labour and even people from some prominent ‘Nationalist families’, including political families, are busy striking backroom deals with ‘Joseph’ and Joseph’s mates.

Corrupt Laburisti, on the other hand, keep voting Labour right through and make no secret of it – or they pretend to vote PN, like sleazy Tony Debono – sorry, ‘Anthony de Bono’.

That hardly applies in the case of men and watches.

A pair of earrings would have made a better comparison.

That is not a photograph of a private party at which they are fellow guests.

That is a photograph of a restaurant and, what’s more, a restaurant on a beach.

And do stop trying to change the subject and divert the discussion down an irrelevant route.