While standing to be served in a Marsascala ironmongery, two hunters were boasting of what they had killed that morning.

“A grey heron, two ospreys” and three other species I didn’t pick up.

One described his bravado: “Ġibtha rix biss”, translating roughly to “only the feathers were left”. What despicable barbarism thanks to all our politicians, both present and past.