Yesterday’s man continues to grind his worn-out axes

The Law Commissioner is not the only man in exalted public office who needs psychiatric treatment. The executive chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology is another one.

Just in case you’ve forgotten the old pattern from three to four to five years ago, every time Franco Debono has a fit of hysteria and gets the media spotlight, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has a rival fit of hysteria and tries to bitch his way into the spotlight too, ousting Debono. They spend some days jostling each other in the media, then bother disappear again.

It’s been a while now since they both featured prominently in a 5am brawl at a Rabat bar and pastizzi shop.

This particular nut-job actually told the newspaper not to ask him questions about the Malta Council for Science and Technology, “because he doesn’t want to mix up council business with politics”. There goes another one who doesn’t know that the executive chairman is the executive chairman even in the bath or drunk on a bar-counter: if he talks politics, and in particular if he rants and raves against one party and in favour of the other, he has dragged the state council into the muck and embarrassed and compromised it.

Standards in public life, eh?