The Constitution is ‘higher’ than any court judgement. It is laws which have to be changed to bring them in line with the Constitution, and not the Constitution which has to be changed to bring it in line with the law.

For example, the law prohibiting the media and political parties from discussing politics on the eve of an election is highly anti-Constitutional.

No mean feat, considering there are a mere two degrees of separation with the likes of Anna Netrebko. You know, I’m nearer fifty than twenty-five, but I still meet people who go “Dak kanta l-Metropolitan, ta’! Taf x’inhu l-Metropolitan?” And I go “Sorry, sarli l-hin u rrid nigbor it-tifla.”

Survival in Malta is the art of concealment in full view.

The day the President of the Law Commission shows real interest in any maiden, fair or otherwise, who does not come covered in feathers is the day I will admit I was completely wrong about the real source of his chronic anxiety.

Word has it he won the joust with Joseph Calleja for the fair maiden.

I thought he had a doctorate in anthropology but I didn’t bother to check it out.