Sometimes, I wonder whether the government has indeed a clear direction and indeed the result of the recent council elections brings to mind what Anton Chekhov once wrote, “If you cry ‘Forward!’ you must without fail make plain in what direction to go”.

Don’t you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions? And sometimes I wonder whether all ministers and party officials crying “forward” to the party faithfuls know which way forward is!

J. Aquilina

BAHAR IC-CAGHAQ