Dom Mintoff

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Dom Mintoff - the key political figure in postwar and post-independence Malta - died the other day aged 96.

This is his Grauniad obit.

It's fascinating and worth reading in its own right, but I'll post the best bit here:

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Glorious.

[minionofmidas]

RIP. A true FF.


And LMAO at the Guardian, of all papers, copy-and-pasting the Foreign Office hogwash theory that Britain's Meditteranean possessions still had any trace of strategic relevance left after 1945.