Fool's Cap

Vlad of Fool's cap takes a cue from the letter pages of The Times in his latest entry:

From time to time, the Maltese simpleton is treated most generously to the wit and wisdom of a enlightened foreigner, more often than not an English pensioner from Blackburn. Occasionally, the topic of their letters to the Times will have something to do with Malta, though this is hardly mandatory. Indeed, the letters page of the Times is usually is a surrogate for their own British newspapers, which would not dream of printing these senile ramblings. On Thursday, Gerry Cowie from Surrey wrote in on the flimsy pretext of having recently visited Malta to rail against the evil of political correctness..

Sadly for Mr. Cowie, this sits uncomfortably with a more sensible, if overlong, letter from Stephen Farrugia, who lives in Ilmspan, Germany. Farrugia discusses what he perceives to be the growing scourge of racism on the island. It is sad that it has taken Lowell and his pathetic band of eunuchs for the Maltese to come to terms with the latent racism that has always existed in the country. I cannot imagine that there is a single person in Malta who has not at some time or other witnessed or taken part in a base display of xenophobic contempt towards some unfortunate Libyan, most of whom are respectable law-abiding people.

A Maltese Polly Filler