Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted his three fresco panels themed Allegory of Good and Bad Government between late February 1338 and the end of May 1339. As I admired these magnificent frescoes in the Sala dei Nove inside the town hall in Siena, the metaphorical coalesced into the factual: Café Premier, Australia Hall, Panamagate, Żonqor Point, positions of trust, corruption, favouritism, cronyism, the uglification of Malta, Electrogas and the myriad other examples of shameless malpractice, maladministration and bad governance committed by this government.