The following is my interview with Maltese artist, author and politician Mr. Norman Lowell, conducted in May 2011.
Mr. Lowell was kind enough to accept my offer of an interview and I give my sincere thanks and appreciation to him for sparing his valued time to share express in opinions, insights and ideology in this format for the Fyrnsidu Project. It was my hope to garner a more personal and sincere picture of the man as opposed to how he is portrayed in the controlled mainstream media, and to this end it is hoped readers will find this interview of both value and interest.
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Interview begins:
Hello to you Mr. Lowell. It is a great pleasure for me to be able to interview you and I hope this will serve to educate our readers as to your true beliefs and philosophical and political ideology, and also to find out a little more and understand the man behind the sensationalised newspaper headlines. Indeed, I first came across you after hearing a radio interview with you a few years ago and I was very impressed, even with a casual yet very serious interview, I found you a very powerful and passionate speaker – this is what struck me initially and has stuck with me.
Thank you for inviting me to this interview. I do not consider Politics as just another job, as most of today’s politicians do. I regard Politics as very serious business, ultimately deciding the fate of our Peoples, High Culture and Civilisation. As such, I speak passionately and truthfully – there is no other way.
I would like to start by asking you to introduce yourself. Please tell us a bit about your background from your childhood growing up in Malta to your involvement in nationalist politics?
I am descended from English and Italian families who settled in Malta. The Lowells arrived in the 1800s and my father’s mother, my direct grandmother was a Hampton, an Englishwoman who never spoke Maltese. My great grandmother on my mother’s side was Venetian. When she flew into a temper nobody understood her!