Sai Mizzi’s performance at her press conference was an exercise in pulling the wool over one’s eyes. That was the only choice left to her, considering the many, well, chinks in her armour.

Her infamous “you finally found me” will come back to haunt her. The last time that words were uttered to that effect was by Paul Bremer, the head of the US Occupying Forces in Iraq. Remember?

“Ladies and gentlemen... we got ‘im!”, he said, on breaking the news of the capture of Saddam Hussein, who was run to ground hiding out in a rat hole.

She alleges (what else?) that she managed to swing this latest deal, a deal involving a specialist company in cellular phone communication, a company on a scale that Malta’s GDP would look like the daily bill the company runs up on hospitality expenses...

It was an insulting performance. An insult (though unlike the one to the wider audience, perhaps in this case unintended) to this giant telecommunications company, which has left her out on a limb without a phone connection.

Mizzi is no Chinese puzzle.

She was as obvious as daylight.

And she couldn’t have chosen a more jarring venue to the inanities she assailed us with: Smart City.

The lady doesn’t have a phone.

Go tell that to the Mandarins.