Until four years ago, Malta was a republic

Now Malta has a head of state who poses in this fashion with the Labour Party’s deputy leader and government minister for the economy, who is himself a sordid bar-fly and a man who took a false oath saying that he wasn’t in a brothel in Velbert, Germany, when he was.

This same sordid cabinet minister thinks it perfectly acceptable to pay – probably using public money, too – to have this completely inappropriate photography dotted all over Instagram as a sponsored post.

This is what used to be the republic of Malta.