OK, but my point here is that there are certain things educated adults are expected to know or to be able to work out for themselves by assembling the facts and bringing their analytical skills to bear on them. It worries me that, in Malta, the basics have to be spoonfed.

When you are unsure, you should always ask. That is how the saying goes.

Strange that you had to ask.

fair enough. good point

It is not friendship that stops Muscat taking action against him. It is vested interest.

Schembri needn’t say or do anything new, yet he still has the prime minister in a stranglehold.