It was two years ago that the then Greek Minister of Propaganda (official title: ‘Minister for the Press and Government Spokesperson’) ordered the producer of an ERT (Greek state) television program never to invite me again on state television. How do I know? He did so in my presence, after a television panel was completed in which I had the audacity of pointing out to the said Minister that his account of the European Union summit he had just returned from was laughably misleading (nb. the Minister had claimed that the Greek side had succeeded in convincing our European partners to introduce the Tobin tax – a decision that, to this day, two years later, has not been made).