And often two short planks. I wonder why we have so many ways to describe thickness in our fellows?

She must know full well what her grandparents had to go through, even if she never knew them.

I will stop here only out of respect towards her living relatives who must still be hurt for about what Mintoff and Co. made them go through.

When you’re criticising someone remotely, it’s criticism OF, not criticism TO. Criticism to magistrates (why the capital letter?) would be if Lowell and the magistrates were sitting around a boardroom having a discussion. And then you couldn’t call it “personal criticism”.

What they really mean here is “insult”.

This ignorance of grammar is dangerous, because we’re getting our laws wrong.

Let me try to help.

TGHAJJIR/INSULTI ~ insults
KRITIKA ~ criticism
so-called KRITIKA PERSONALI ~ personal insults, or negative remarks.

Does even this have to be spoon-fed to you?

The Chamber of Advocates protested because of Norman Lowell’s vilification of the courts, of which lawyers are officials.

An attack on the courts is an attack on the lawyers themselves.

Why, oh why, should the Chamber of Advocates react at all to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s “cheap and vulgar rants”? It does not concern them at all.

But even this is probably too difficult to understand for someone whose intelligence is always struggling to make an appearance, but has never managed so far.

Keep trying.