There was a live bull driven through Sliema on an open backed lorry.

Mur obsor – sorpriza – wara 40 sena kien ghosfor u rega’ tfacca biex jaghtina palata minghalih. Hallina tridx tmur lura minfejn gejt.

Daily purchasing a bottle of whisky.

It has rarely been written accurately in the first instance. Media bias and political spin are hardly new phenomena, and national pride has always been an easy means to sway minds.

I was still young in those days, but I still hold vivid memories of bull heads, coffins and crucifix hung upside down together with the humongous MLP flags and obscene words on posters. These adorned balconies were especially found in Paola (also known as Ir-Rahal il-Gdid). It was tal-biza u tat-twerwir to go to school or to do an errand for mum.

Thank you for pointing that out. Both Dom Mintoff and George Borg Olivier were total and utter chauvinists and bastards to their wives, and I’m not about to praise or glorify either of them because in my considered view, what a man is at home is the sum total of what he actually is, fullstop.