What is it about this country, everybody needs to lay down the law all the time?  After all, this is a function reserved to us columnists and bloggers, butt out the rest of you.

Kidding aside, the situation is getting a touch out of hand, don’t you think?   What with superannuated Yankee ambassadors parachuting in to tell us that we have to have a reference to God in the Constitution, as if we didn’t have enough blinking fundamentalism already, and people rabbiting on about saving Dwejra and having Maltese artists in Isle of MTV and so on and so forth, where is it all going to end?

His not-any-longer Excellency Kmiec, for a start, should bow out gracefully and not show his face around here any longer.  He is representative of no-one, having had the distinction of having been given the right royal elbow, and his notions of what is of paramount importance in a constitution are of “the less said the better”, frankly.  When are we going to get the message that this is a secular country, one which respects all beliefs and the lack of such beliefs, and your chosen belief system, whatever it is, is your responsibility and yours alone?

And so to Dwejra, where the window is not collapsing because of anything we puny humans have done, so there’s nothing we should do to try to stop it from succumbing to the advances of nature.  That particular lady will take her own sweet course in her own sweet time.  No doubt Joseph Muscat will promise to shore up the arch all on his own, superbeing that he is, but the rest of us, out here in the real world and not the Disney fantasy inhabited by some, will see through that and tell him to chill, man.

I’ve never attended Isle of MTV, because it’s not exactly my music scene, but by all accounts, it’s a night out and a half and gets the country massive positive publicity.  It is also a private endeavour, put up by people who know what they want and have the guts to go for it.  Yes, sure, there is some public money used, but however much it is, it’s a flipping great deal for all that PR-value.

So the people who have suddenly got onto a convenient nag to ride into the election fray, such as that Sigmund Mifsud bloke who seems to have got the idea that private entrepreneurs can be dictated to on the matter of which artists they want to perform in their show, which they have put together and on which they are taking a risk, should really take a reality pill. 

I’ve got nothing against Maltese artists, we have some superb ones, but simply because a show is taking place in Malta does not mean that they have any sort of divine right to participate.   Not unless they have Labour control-freak mentalities, that is.