I'll start not as I mean to go on. I know Pullicino Orlando reads this blog, from his reaction some time ago when I dared mention him, untouchable being that he is.

So, a message to the Honourable Gentleman: stop behaving like a moronic teenager. Notice, I'm not calling you a moronic teenager, you're not under twenty, I'm just saying you're acting like one. Just as you're acting like a racist bigot who doesn't know the first thing about the process by means of which countries are admitted to the European Union. I don't think you're racist, but you're certainly giving the impression of wanting to imitate one.

In my previous blog, I expressed concern about Joseph Muscat's cuddling up to the vicious dictatorship that is North Korea's.

Unlike the President's Office, which was quick to deny what was reported by the North Koreans, Muscat did not, which means that either he said what he was reported to have said (wanting to forge solid links and approving their missile-launching stand) or that he thinks that what was said he said was not important enough to deny.

I'm not entirely sure whether the first or the second alternative is more worrying. Our aspirant Prime Minister either thinks he can fly in the face of the rest of the civilised world and its opinion of us, and make nice with the North Koreans, or he thinks that it doesn't matter that by not denying it, he gives the rest of the civilised world the impression that he thinks he can fly in its face.

Whatever, this is not an episode which makes me particularly sanguine about the prospect of Muscat representing me to the world.

Equally perplexing, though, is the way some people just didn't get it.

I'm not talking about the Puny Elves and Malta Today, the latter's reaction being "didn't the Foreign Minister also meet the North Korean Ambassador and wasn't our daring investigation that discovered this?" Yes, of course he did, but the meeting wasn't quite the point, was it? It was what was said.

The thing is, people who should know better, such as the man who is Labour's equivalent to me (at least, that's how his description of me works, in reverse, so I'll return the compliment) Lino Spiteri and the Independent on Sunday's editor, who simply passed over the story with a "what's all the fuss about?"

Do these people really want a PM who thinks nothing of the world seeing him as someone who is not worried by a close and cuddly relationship with the North Korean Government?

Do they really not get it?