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Pictures of Norman Lowell graced no less than two pages (page 1 and page 6) of MaltaToday last Sunday. I am sure our Norman, whose name barely deserves to be mentioned in public, was grateful for this free publicity. This newspaper even went as far as according him the importance of quoting verbatim from a written statement from this individual stating “(we) do not condone such acts” and so on. Well, that is truly reassuring. The famous riposte uttered in a London court some forty years ago by Mandy Rice-Davies, one of the society bed-hoppers involved in the Profumo scandal, has already been quoted in this sort of context: upon being told that Lord Astor denied having had an alleged affair with her, she promptly replied to the judge “Well, he’d say that, wouldn’t he?”
Margaret Thatcher has been quoted as saying that such people “should be denied the oxygen of publicity”. This is particularly apt in the case of somebody who has achieved notoriety through repeatedly expressing vile racist views in public. In any case, apart from a few adherents of his bunch, nobody in his right mind is particularly interested in what this man looks like.
George Debono
St Julians
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