Reporting the facts

C. Meilak of Sliema (February 5), like some of those favouring EU membership, twists the facts to suit his own agenda. The quotation he mentions should read: "Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and was coined by B. Penrose in 1931.

C. Meilak of Sliema (February 5), like some of those favouring EU membership, twists the facts to suit his own agenda. The quotation he mentions should read: "Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and was coined by B. Penrose in 1931. "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" is a creation of Mr Meilak.

I will leave him with this correctly-reported quotation by Will Rogers (1879-1935) as applied to what I write in the local press about the Nationalist government's farcical arguments in favour of EU membership: "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts".

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