Another newspaper, unintentionally, attributed humiliation to the Leader of the Opposition as a result of the manner in which the crowd behaved in his regard last Saturday during Rockestra.
I wasn't there, for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that I like rock and sanitising it through a blinking orchestra is a sacrilege to my, admittedly fundamentalist, ears. This is not to say that the players were anything but excellent, of course, just that there's too much of a whiff of middle-of-the-roadiness about the whole thing.
For whatever reason, anyway, I wasn't there, so all I can report is second-hand. The fact is that Dr Simon Busuttil was booed when he went on stage. He was not, forgive my being tautological (not quite the right word, but I like it) booed by anyone but Labour supporters, although I'm pretty sure that the usual suspects will take the same stance as the bird-killers and ask what evidence I have for that statement.
I'm told that there was no visible reaction from the Prime Minister that went in any measure, even the slightest, towards showing any disapproval of his supporters' vulgarity. The President, who was also on stage, did not walk off in disgust, which perhaps with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight he should have, but he made it clear that he was not of the same opinion as the chavs, naturally.
What I do know for a fact is that there has been no public statement of disapproval for the behaviour that was seen and heard last Saturday.
It was not Simon Busuttil who was humiliated that night: it was a big chunk of the population, the ones for whom nothing is anything (xejn mhu xejn, forgive the lousy translation) because they won the election, and they can do what they like, so there.
The Minister's wife can become a State employee and the Constitution, and propriety, can go hang. The AFM Commandant can be replaced and the separation of powers can go hang.
Everything, in fact, can go hang, because anyone who criticises will be roundly booed, told he hasn't learnt anything from the past and is being negative.
No, it isn't Busuttil who should feel humiliated, it is Joseph Muscat, because it is his attitude and his unrepentant opportunistic electioneering, which is still going on, that has brought us to this, a country in which the Leader of the Opposition gets booed when he takes to the stage during an apolitical charity event and for many it's as if nothing has happened.