Malta Science Council executive chairman wants everybody to know that he went to Checkpoint Charlie

The politically-appointed executive chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology, a dentist who operates out of a village clinic, who pops into the science council office one day a week for a full-time salary with perks including a car and chauffeur, and who put his own girlfriend on the council payroll and promoted her, can’t leave the island for a weekend without peppering his Facebook page with holiday snaps like a teenager or a sheltered soul who never travels and must therefore boast excitedly about every trip.

At present, he wants us to know that he has taken an Air Malta flight to Berlin (so intrepid – why bother with a journey down the Amazon?) and that he has done the tourist-trap thing at Checkpoint Charlie with his ‘project manager’ (previously, personal assistant) from the Science Council.

Malta is so ridiculous. Thank God the English are currently worse and have provided us with some scant consolation.