Why the hell should they? They only have one life. Those of us who stayed in the Eighties did not stay out of choice but because we had NO choice. I would have left had I been able to.

In other words, they felt deprived (which is not the same thing as actually being deprived) and grew up with an all-consuming desire for money and the belief that a store of it is insulation against the vagaries of fate, like a store of onions in the cellar.

They store their money like their ancestors stored onions against the winter. Except that their ancestors ate the onions and they never use their money.

He means ‘where corruption is taken for granted and accepted’ – can’t you see that he speaks English as a foreign language? Come on.

Wasn’t trying to be a grammar Nazi. It’s just that it struck me that this guy is such a has-been.

Thanks for the correction. Done.

Surely you mean “epilogue” – and at this point it’s more of a swan song of a has-been.

In Malta, he has a radio show on the public service broadcaster, talking about the newspapers and discussing political matters.