Missing the customary balanced erudite analysis of Martin Scicluna’s contributions, reading his last input to Times of Malta (September 17), entitled British 200-Year Legacy, I could not but recall what Albert Memmi (Portrait du colonisé Portrait du colonisateur) observed on colonialism: the distance between the master and the servant is never that big. People and traditions can also become mnemonic products of past colonial eras.

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