My favourite team has taken another loss in the Nations League, and this time at the hands of France playing home at the Stade de France. But if there’s a loss I accept, it’s the ex-world champions at the hands of the current world champions.

Which gets me to muse on how what goes round, comes round, and everybody or any organisation has a nadir at some point of their existence.

The Opposition is no exception, and there is still a long way to go for it to climb out of its present situation.

So it is up to the present administration to safeguard the future of our nation for the benefit of all our children and future generations.

Yet this unabated instant gratification for the preferred few, to the overall detriment of the many, needs to be curtailed.

This land needs to stop and think about the moral and physi­cal destruction it is engulfed in.

Is Malta a healthy nation? Are we really a happy people? Are we morally comfortable?

A few days ago Microsoft’s co-founder, Paul Allen, a charming man, and a huge philanthropist who combatted global poverty, died aged 65. May he rest in peace.

Money may make the world go round, but it doesn’t save anybody from the inevitable. And politicians need to remain with their feet firmly on the ground, and to keep in mind that only their legacy remains.

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