I found some of the questions put to Alfred Sant in the last interview with The Times rather outdated since they were a rehash of what other journalists had put across to him lately and we could tell what the answers were going to be.

Dr Sant never answers a hypothetical question. Nor does he answer for anyone else's action but his alone and those of his party as dictated by the general conference.

Dr Sant has been on the political scene for more than a decade, so those who interview him must know which questions not to put and what type of answers they would get if they put them.

Moreover some questions simply looked like the interviewer was trying to elicit a confirmation of the latest thoughts the anti-Labour media is trying to spread. I really expected more searching questions.

One last comment to the page setter: Would he have put the photo of, say, the Queen or George W. Bush in a split page? Photographer Matthew Mirabelli's work was not enhanced. Whoever did that upped the regular cartoonist.

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