They who slither - Wayne Flask
I used to find Beppe Grillo rather entertaining, at least in my youth. The Genoese ‘comedian’, who predicted Parmalat’s collapse during a theatre show, was as aggressive as he was precise in his missives at the powers-that-be, often employing an enviable turn of phrase. “Those who slither can’t fall on their faces,” he once said in reference to Bruno Vespa, RAI’s veteran Christian Democrat propagandist who does his bidding for the likes of Silvio Berlusconi. As much as I detest what Grillo and his political movement stand for nowadays, I jealously revere that aphorism, as if it were mine. I was reminded of it by Jason Azzopardi, who this week reached the zenith of his pathetic existence by selectively quoting the Gospel according to Matthew, asking his anti-choice brethren to “be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves”. This came as the tail end of a maliciously unproven allegation aimed at unnamed pro-choice activists who, he feverishly claimed, went through the motions to ship a pregnant American woman for an abortion and cause a commotion in the otherwise holy state of Malta. This “objective factual truth” had been widely derided a few months ago, when woman...