And so while the world trembles and Spain totters we go on playing silly games. It's not enough that a few backbenchers who were never ministers have an ego bigger than Mount Everest. They keep harping on how good they are while proving to the world what bad losers and cry-babies they are.

Now a former minister and a former chairman have taken centre stage and are stamping their feet and wailing to set records right. All they are doing really is proving that they too are complete fools and carp when they shouldn't. And like all silly asses who bray loudest—a bit like me as a blogger—they make a scene and will be remembered for their foolish braying.

So let's analyse what these former this and that said. First we had the former chairman of Air Malta who said that the company, while he headed it, never faltered or lost too much. Fair enough and history will surely nod approvingly. But interspersed within all his talk of dishonest politicians and unbelievable rants against Greeks there was another gem. The man who headed Air Malta for quite a number of years admitted that politicians—obviously unlike poor developers and businessmen—were, and are, all terrible and dishonest.

And these horrid politicians, of any hue and ideology, made him engage employees who were not needed by the company. He acceded unwillingly and so unwittingly admitted bending to politicians' warped ways and whims. Therefore he also admitted that he took decisions not on a particularly commercial basis but based solely on obeying orders from above. So wouldn't it have been slightly better if this chairman kept his cool and just told us, as in fact he unbelievably did, that MIDI—even if it is a great commercial project—disfigures the skyline from Valletta and that like Humpty Dumpty can never be put right again?

To the former minister now. Dr Deguara seems to have caught the bug, speaking out about his jolly times as a minister and setting about straightening what to him seemed like skewered views.

He rebutted what the present minister of health said about consultants and their conditions. And Dr Deguara actually admitted that he had only agreed to go ahead with the agreement because he had received orders from above. So was what he did dishonourable? Did he accept to implement the new agreement when he was morally and materially against such decisions? Wasn't that terrible? If he had accepted to do it then he should have bitten his tongue now and shut up forever more. And if he now says that he only accepted to implement the agreement out of party loyalty, because of what at the time was an approaching election, then he should have done the same now and been loyal to his same party—and bitten off his tongue and buried it somewhere in Naxxar.

Life in politics or when running public corporations is tough—but if you take decisions which are based on a fallacy or on "orders from above" you still have to carry the responsibility of having endorsed, and therefore accepted, that decision. And you have to accept them as your decisions for life and not just while you are cosily acting as chairman or minister.