This week was full of silly antics and news stories - from the Maltese elite being embarrassed by Malta’s potatoes, to Jason Micallef being given the power to single handedly ridicule (sic) the country....their words not mine.

Between these two stories and the nasty spins given to them, I couldn’t make up my mind as to which one was the most preposterous, then, lucky me, this morning I woke up to another two amusing reports:

The first involved a couple of middle aged Spaniards who were arrested and ‘brought to justice’ for offending public morals.

According to various news reports, the ‘lewd’ criminal act happened yesterday at 5pm at Ramla Bay in Gozo.

Now given that for most of us Maltese this is still not summer, and therefore not bathing season, and given that yesterday evening the islands were experiencing gale force winds, I wonder whose morals (apart from the lone patrol policeman’s), were actually offended.

I tried to look up the details of the case in the court’s web services, but I didn’t find them.

It seems that judges, lawyers, the police force, and the law courts in Gozo, are more than willing to work on a Saturday evenings in order to bring dangerous criminals to justice, but the court’s webmaster can’t be bothered to update us with the facts.

Without the case details in hand I can’t comment much. I can however congratulate the police for teaching these ‘foreigners’ a good lesson; which is never ever to visit Malta again and, never ever to recommend Malta as being the European and liberal country we’d like to say it is!!

Well done, to the police for wasting my tax money and ridiculing my country in one full swoosh. Have the police in Gozo ever heard of a slap on the wrist?

The second story I read this morning was about Simon Busutill being elected as the next PN leader.

What a breath of fresh air!

Finally the PN seem to be heading towards the more rational light and have elected the most convincing man and, more importantly (apart from Ray Bugeja), the one with the least historical party roots, to the helm.

When he first came to Malta, before the general elections, supposedly to ‘save the day’ on behalf of the Nationalist party, I actually thought he might manage.

For a few days, if not weeks, I actually had renewed hope that the Labour party might face some real competition, which, as picky as it might sound, is always what I prefer in a real democracy.

Of course, later we found out that Simon didn’t stand a chance in hell. He was brought in way too late, when voters had already made up their mind.

At that point he couldn’t have managed to turn 36,000 voters around if he had Superman’s super powers.

After the elections, when the numbers were revealed, you could see betrayal written all over his face.

Clearly, he was given a different impression of the real situation.

I thought he would bugger off and forget about the great ordeal, but the man stood his ground. He resigned from the European Parliament and put his neck out once again.

I might have criticized his low blinking rate in the past, his over- controlled body language, and his pasted smile, but hand on heart I honestly believe that this was the best choice that the PN have made in a long long time.

For the sake of our country and the survival of democracy, let’s just hope that they keep it up, at least for a while.