Mandela wasn’t poor. He was descended from kings, and an aristocrat in the tribal royal house.

Gandhi’s father was chief minister of an Indian princely state.

Jesus Christ I will pass. But his dad was God himself.

The Einsteins were comfortably well off.

The Mozarts were a celebrity family, like the Jackson Five. They lived their life in the royal courts of Europe.

Leonardo has Europe’s wealthiest princes and kings as patrons.

People don’t move from squalor to greatness. You said it yourself. You need a solid financial base in order to achieve your full potential.

Have you ever noticed the two guards outside the President’s Palace in Valletta? They really need to work matching the angle of the rifle.

And do stop it with the great opportunities. There is very little social mobility in Malta.

Exactly. President Coleiro’s biggest problem is not her awful dress but that she is clearly very painfully uncomfortable. She doesn’t know what to do with her body. She has no idea how to behave. It was never meant to be this way, after all.

Ħlisna mill-barrani biex nagħmlu ta’ rasna mhux biex nimxu skond ir-regoli imperjali. Maltese village politics was supposed to create a socialist nirvana, even if some politicians had to bully and bribe their way to power and some unfortunates had to have their teeth bashed in or be disappeared along the way.

Blame it all on Dom Mintoff. The comedy of errors we are witnessing right now is his legacy.

Also, no two rifles have the same angle at order arms.