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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2015 24 24 Opinion L ook, guys, I know this is a little hard to take in all at once… but that thing that's going on in the background as I write? The one that's got all Malta on shutdown, with helicopters and sirens going off every five minutes? It isn't the Oscars, you know. Yes, yes, there's a red carpet, and a bunch of VIPs stop to have their picture taken on it every once in a while. But they're not film stars. They are merely the heads of government in Commonwealth countries. No one else in the rest of the world is paying the remotest attention to anything they do or say… still less to what they wear. In fact, for all the difference this occasion was ever going to make, Marie Louise-Coleiro Preca could just as easily have gone dressed up as a Christmas bauble made of pistachio-flavoured Turkish delight. Nobody would have noticed the difference (which is just as well, because there isn't much to notice)… for the simple reason that no one is actually watching the show. Oh, but wait. You already know that, don't you? That's why nobody in this country is actually discussing what this meeting is supposed to be all about. That's why everyone seems to have suddenly developed this morbid fixation with the contents of the President of the Republic's wardrobe: debating what this may contain, that would have been more suitable for the occasion than a bright green sugar-plum fairy costume, left over from last year's Christmas panto… Ah yes. The great unanswered question of the millennium… But hey, let's be practical here for a second. There is a reason why President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca's dress sense has suddenly become important, when it never was before… and even then, only for these next few days. It's because the alternative to discussing what the President wore for CHOGM, is to actually discuss CHOGM itself. And… well, there you go. Half of you are asleep already… So what the heck: scratch what I said earlier about CHOGM not being the night of the stars. We may as well pretend it really is the Oscars, and therefore discuss the only thing that is ever worth discussing about the Oscars anyway. What they were all wearing… Suddenly, the topic seems infinitely more relevant than CHOGM itself. It's a little bit like Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Emperor's New Clothes'… only in reverse. In that fable, the illusory nature of power is exposed through the Emperor's nakedness… which everyone can see (though they all pretend not to). In this one, it is the equally illusory power of CHOGM, as a global event, that has been exposed as 'naked' by the President's choice of attire. 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