Yana Mintoff Bland gave a flippant reply (“I need to get more facts about that”) when asked about the human rights abuses in Malta during the time her father, Dom Mintoff, was in power.

She had all of 30 years to document herself about the multitude of human rights abuses perpetrated during her father’s time before thrusting herself into local politics.

The question is why didn’t she? Could it be that for her the human rights of UK nationals are much more important than those of the Maltese, the children of a lesser God, as it were?

Or could it be that had she tried to find out about the human rights abuses, she would have to reluctantly come to the conclusion that her father, at the end of the day, was nothing other than a tin-pot dictator surrounded by a bunch of lackeys?