Joseph Muscat's Malta Labour Party is now going to be Partit Laburista. Sounds like a concrete change for a party that for most of its history presented itself as the champion of the Maltese language.

In the immediate post-WWII years, that same party had a government minister named Arturo Colombo who proposed the use of the English language exclusively to the detriment of the Maltese language.

Arturo Colombo had fallen out with Dom Mintoff and perhaps that is why his proposal didn't go through back then. It wasn't only Colombo that fell out with Mr Mintoff though.

In the most recent Partit Laburista extraordinary general conference, Labour leader Dr Muscat recalls Sir Paul Boffa in relation to Labour's torch. Sir Paul Boffa is a former Labour leader.

In one of his first speeches as Labour leader, Dr Muscat also mentioned Mr Mintoff. Did Dr Muscat forget that for the then young Mr Mintoff "Boffa immoffa" and that Dr Muscat himself has stated that Mr Mintoff is the father of the Malta Labour Party?

Can we please decide? Is the anti-Boffa Mintoff the father of the Malta Labour Party or not? Perhaps Boffa was the grandfather?

By the way, Sir Paul Boffa had formed a coalition government with Giorgio Borg Olivier's PN to keep Mr Mintoff's Malta Labour Party out of power.

I don't think the Malta Labour Party's father actually enjoyed that!