If Maltese people were educated, rather than moneyed, they would know that the Archbishop’s tweet is really quite naughty

I did say I rather like that man. But do you see what happens when people don’t have an education?

News-making comments like the Archbishop’s tweet after the Planning Authority approved five massive towers – which anywhere else would have been in the headlines and talked about around the lunch-table – are missed completely, because almost nobody in this poorly educated island knows who Priapus was or what ‘priapic’ means.

And that also means they’ve haven’t a clue what the Archbishop is on about, or just how rudely naughty and completely apt his tweet is.

But Muscat’s party thinks it’s OK to be ignorant as long as you are also rich or getting there. So we have a “new middle class” that can only talk about boats, cars, Thailand, flats – sorry, APARTMENTS – and contracts, and which uses its money for anything but becoming a better and more educated person.

One of the worst things about Malta, and there are many, is that you constantly have to interact with adults who know nothing about anything, and whose conversation is at the level of a 12-year-old’s. It’s disgraceful.

Priapus is the ancient Greek god of fertility who was always depicted with a massively erect member.