We often hear these days that freedom of expression is not unlimited. I agree. Freedom of speech is limited to what those in power want to hear, and power does not necessarily reside exclusively in Parliament.

Norman Lowell has overstepped the lines of decency too often. It should be a simple case of choosing between vulgarity and civility, rather than the “right to free expression” and other liberal nonsense-on-stilts which liberals themselves do not follow.

Then again he is not alone, as Daphne Caruana Galizia transgressed similar lines last Sunday. She writes that she knows not what bad experiences turned Arlette Baldacchino into such a horrid racist, but on our part we know not either what bad experiences turned Ms Caruana Galizia into such a vile mouthpiece for foul and personal invective, and this case is so not an exception.

Of course, the idea that those who radically disagree with the liberal establishment are so obviously ignorant and perverse is not her original idea so I will not give her the credit.

Jean Gove`

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