You will recall that Labour had jumped on the divorce bandwagon with quite a bit of gusto - it was seen as a way of embarrassing the Government, which is a hobby that they have taken up quite assiduously.

Sadly for them, the referendum came and went and the Government survived and we now have divorce as part of our civil law, hip, hip hooray. Case closed.

This habit the Government seems to have of surviving must be really galling for Joseph Muscat, gagging as he is for a stab at being the youngest PM the country has ever seen.

He is taking on the trappings of power eagerly, what with his teleprompter, his cool blue ties and the perfectly stage-managed media events, with the young and the beautiful being strategically arranged to appear around him, allowing him bask in their radiance. He wants to be Obama, immediately, if not sooner.

It's a pity that when the camera, real or virtual, pulls back, we get a glimpse of the starker picture that is True (and certainly not New) Labour, the intolerance for ideas that are not theirs, the failure to understand what real democracy is, the control-freakery skulking just beneath the surface. If you dare gainsay them, woe betide you - well, woe would betide me, for instance, if only I gave a rat's ass about the fact that Orizzont, Illum, One TV, Torca and KullHadd think that the fact that I earn money is news.

But that's as may be.

What is Joseph Muscat going to latch onto now, once the prospect of Parliamentary hitches for the Government has receded into the middle distance?

What new cause celebre (how do you do accents on a Mac?) will he sink his media-savvy fangs into, hoping to catch his nemesis on the hop? He hasn't got very far thus far, so what next?

Those of us with eyes in our heads can see where Muscat gets his ideas.

For example, Ed Milliband, who many, including myself, find to be an obnoxious youth, inspires Muscat no end, to the extent that he lifted Ed's ideas about education (judiciously leaving out the bit about taxing people to pay for them) pretty much wholesale. The thing about education is that Muscat would be ill-advised to make too much noise about it, because if there's one thing the current lot have done, and there's way more than one thing, it's get it right on education, as most parents know.

He can't even go after the Pink Vote (forgive me the phrase, it serves only as a means of description) because here again, the Government has beaten him to the draw - there's more to do, but nothing so major that Labour has any significant proposal to make.

Up with what is the Progressive Movement of Moderates (sounds like Conservationist Hunters, that) going to come, to hide the fact that there's nothing behind the pretty sounds they make all the time?