In reaction to Labour's apparent eagerness to revise the country's history and make us forget the trials and tribulations through which we went in the 70s and 80s, the PM gave them fair warning that they would not be allowed to do so.

This met with squeals and snorts from the predictable bunch, who should be treated with the contempt they deserve, of course. Equally contemptible is the attempt by Labour's new hangers-on, who chorus "Old men should let the past go to sleep" whenever people like me adhere to the adage of not ignoring history lest we repeat it.

Labour itself has now given new life to the past anyway, by shoving to the forefront of its machine people like Mr Karmenu Vella and others and by continuing to beatify Dom Mintoff, so I and my ilk can't be blamed for recalling their past. Dr Alfred San't short-lived attempt to distinguish Labour Past from Labour Present has failed utterly, as the outpourings of people like Mr Joe Grima attest.

Now we have been treated to the words of one of the (self-proclaimed) pillars of the Labour Party, Mr Reno Calleja, no less, who has drawn on the Olympian heights of his intellect and the sweeping breadth of his grasp of history to whine about bitter bloggers and spiteful journalists, who seem to have made it their life's work to cast aspersions on the magnificent piece of work that is the Labour Movement.

Mr Calleja, for reasons known only to himself, compared us humble scribes to Sarah Palin, of all people, for all that her style is perceptibly more akin to that of Malta's very own Labour Party than it is to mine, speaking for myself.

A word to the wise, Mr Calleja: don't remind us of the past, because it's you who has to relive it.