So this female lecturer and former ambassador to there and somewhere else pens an article, Times of Malta obliges and prints it in full view on the back page. She says that, horror of horrors, our glorious government has no direction or vision in the arts division.

Some women — and many men — talk a load of garbage.

Let’s analyse what she said in depth. In so much depth that, most probably, no bigwig in Parliament, and especially the few select ones who make up Cabinet, will understand. But then they never understand much do they? If they did they would definitely disappear.

Let’s analyse.

Government having no policy and vision is a godsend.

I mean look at our standing with the world. Back then we were taken seriously and few had heard about us and our plight. It wasn’t even a plight at all—because, as far as I know, we were doing very well thank you very much. Now all we do is hear ridicule about our sale of passports and our strapped-for-cash status.

So if this government, which listens only to the voices of its own chosen few, has no policy, that is mightily better than having a policy.

In anything but the arts the policy seems to be let’s go downhill. Quick! In a flash! It seems to be what cabinet and the rest of the policy-makers are doing—to pulling us out of our old ways of doing things well and ruining all we had.

So dear woman who criticises our good governors, make sure they do not now find a vision and direction to completely wipe out the arts in Malta. Oh, too late, I think they have done so already.

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