Irid juri iktar idejat, determinazzjoni u konsistenza. Ma jistax iserrah biss fuq il-Panama. Ma nistawx naghmlu hames snin ohra taht dawn. Mhux ghax il-PN perfetti jew ndaf, imma ghax dawn in-nies urew li huma terribli meta jkollhom il-poter fidejhom.

Most prominent women in public life outside of charities/voluntary organisations/good works in Malta are Old Dorotheans, for better or worse.

The school’s ethos was ‘character-building’ and ‘fending for yourself’ (read: cold, hunger and constant discomfort in near-Dickensian conditions), unlike the other leading convent school for girls, the ethos of which was to create good wives (read: conformity, moving with the pack, no original thoughts, fitting in and submissiveness, which often led to a mess instead).

Caroline Muscat is another ex-Dorothean. I guess it shows plenty in the way she writes.

What a shame. His legacy could have been so different and his earlier ‘deals’ forgotten. Instead we will always remember him for that gas tanker – an ever present symbol of the corruption that has riddled the country – and the skyscrapers he is going to build to the detriment of us all.

JUDGE not lest thou be JUDGED. At least one of them didn’t end up in prison.