And when he said that Debono is “irrelevant”, he provoked a long-running fixation which we are still dealing with today while Gonzi is retired. When he said it, Debono was not Law Commissioner, and I suspect that the main reason he sought and sequestered high public office was to give the finger to those who said he was irrelevant.

A man like this in public office cannot be ignored. It would be extremely irresponsible to do that.

You keep talking about “your reforms”: if they are so necessary, they don’t belong to you, but to the people. Your behaviour devalues the reforms and the so-called service you keep harping on about.

How can you not realise that most of the people egging you on are, in fact, making fun of you? They enjoy the public spectacle afforded by these exchanges. I admit that I found the first few amusing, but I am now rather upset at how you persist in being completely detached from reality.

You think that your tormentors-in-chief are Mrs. Caruana Galizia and Dr. Schiavone, when in fact it’s the Prime Minister, as ever pulling sadistic strings in the background. As Dr. Muscat famously malapropised: “Wake up and smell the coffee”.