No, it's not a misprint for "wandrin' minstr'ls", it's a hint at what a couple of our Ministers, Honourable Gents both, should be doing.
Wondering whether they should still be in their post, that is.
Let's take the Honourable Dr Manuel Mallia, Minister for Home Affairs & Security (to say nothing of mass entertainment and catering) In the Times a couple of days ago, he penned a lengthy piece about the Catering Corps, sorry, I mean the Police, giving us what he obviously thought was an erudite summary of the massive improvements that will be foisted upon the Force in the near future.
We were regaled with a paean (is that the right word, too early in the morning to Google it?) of management-speak. In the very nature of this language is inherent the fact that it is a) gobbledygook and b) generally meant to distract the reader while the author gets on with other things.
Dr Mallia is an expert at both aspects of the language he chose to employ. The gobbledygook doesn't worry me, that's a given when the more pompous get going and Mallia has pompousness down to a fine art.
What is a tad worrying, though, is the Freudian Slip at the end of his few column inches of waffle.
Having told us virtually nothing, the dear fellow let it be known that the Government of which he forms a part, a very substantial part, forsooth, is a progressive and dynamic one.
Yes, we know, we've heard it said very often.
The sting was in the tail, though. After telling us that he, by association if for no other reason, is progressive and dynamic, Dr Mallia went on to regurgitate the tired mantra that the Opposition are negative and obstructionist.
He then, and here's the rub, threatened that if they (the Nasty Nats) continue in this vein and fail to co-operate with the Government, he's going to go ahead and introduce changes without them.
As the changes he was mumbling about in the column preceding this lightly-veiled threat are innocuous in the extreme, what, truthfully, does Dr Mallia really intend to do? You don't threaten to do something that is pretty much nothing, so he must have something up his sleeve and his letting it slip so childishly really should give cause for concern to the PM.
Of course, if Dr Mallia isn't fit for purpose, as he is demonstraging by the minute, the Honourable Dr George Vella, Minister of Foreign Affairs is even less up to the job.
His take on the Ukraine almost got us laughed out of the arena of normal states in the foreign relations environment and now he has the gall to tell us that the Government is monitoring the situation in Libya "hour by hour".
This after he chastised the Nationalists for raising concerns about what's going on and after it has now come to light that a Maltese national has been kidnapped and held by rebels for something approaching eight days without our Government seeing fit to tell us about it or, even worse, to put into place contingency plans to evacuate the people who, it is very clear, want out and quick.
They're getting out, now, but it seems that little thanks is due to the way Joseph Muscat's Government is handling things.
Bumbling fools is the image that springs to mind, making stupid jokes about English food and football.