I hope he thinks the Panama millions are wertid

In this photograph, taken today during the Dutch/Slovak visit, the Prime Minister actually looks ill – nothing to do with mere weight loss.

He’s losing all sense of judgement in how things are perceived by the public, or maybe he’s simply given up caring – which is why he wheeled out his most despised, inept and ludicrous aide, Glenn Bedingfield, to walk side by side with the VIP visitors (and thereby also compromising them) when he knew the cameras would be out in force.

It’s all going to hell in handbasket.

And another thing I have noticed and meant to mention for a while: Kurt Farrugia, head of government communications, is now never at the Prime Minister’s side. Until the Panama Papers scandal exploded and the explosion led to other explosions, you would never see the Prime Minister without Mr Farrugia glued to his hip, defending him and fending off journalists.

The corrupt triad even took him with them to Baku for that notorious meeting where the four of them lined up at the negotiating table across from a long row of grizzled Azerbaijani sharks. But for the last few months, the Prime Minister in his public appearances, scripted and unscripted, has been accompanied by his security officer (that tall old man, a former policeman, with a big white moustache), by his personal assistant Ray ‘Ersaq Ghageb’ Barbara, or by Glenn Bedingfield.