Like you, Mrs. Caruana Galizia, I believe people do not change. If anything, they get worse with age when things become less new, less interesting and they have, generally, less patience with life.

No, people do not change. They just adapt. So very true.

Money well spent if one wanted someone shoved aside, kicked upstairs or, as the Supreme Pontiff with whom we rub shoulders like good buddies would say, “promoveatur ut amoveatur”. Yes, it was like a coronation ceremony except that Zadok the priest did not do the anointing.

And she is completely disgraceful in her role – turning it into that of a charity fundraiser and entertaining all sorts of suspect people at the Palace.

The way she began – by spending a fortune of other people’s money on a six-hour marathon of an ‘inauguration ceremony’ (the first head of state ever to be ‘inaugurated’) – should have told you all you need to know about her ‘humility’ and ‘thrift’ and ‘concern for the poor’.