I started writing this blog on Friday morning, but the combination of matitudinal inattention and a peculiar series of key-presses led to the first couple of hundred words I had written without saving being deleted.

Don't ask me how I managed that, it being theoretically impossible to pull such a stunt off without the computer asking you a couple of times whether you are being a total idiot and do you really want to do this, but there you are, I managed. Any writer worth his salt will tell you that when this happens, the last thing you want to do is bash at it again, and since the beauty of blogging is that there is no deadline per se (unlike my Saturday column, when the editor gets anxious if he doesn't see a shiny new edition on his desk by Thursday morning) I put off the task to the next day.

Pause while I save.

I was having a look through the "most read" list which resides to the right of this piece and I noticed that the report on the libel case Ms Arlette Baldacchino has running against Ms Daphne Caruana Galizia is up there.

Now, generally speaking, far be it from me to comment on a running case, although I labour under no illusion that my words would be dismissed as so much hot air by the presiding beak, even if he deigned to peruse them in the first place.

So, if I were to say that I am slightly bemused that someone who consorts openly with convicted racists seeks the protection of the law because someone points this out, I would be being a touch inconsistent with myself, so I'll forebear from succumbing to the temptation. Just as I won't make silly cracks about birds of a feather being tarred with the same brush or anything like that.

In any case, Ms Caruana Galizia needs no help from me in defending herself against the squealing of Ms Baldacchino, just as I need no help from anyone defending myself when I start featuring on vivamalta.org again, as I had done for quite some time when the revolting racists had raised their heads from the slime. Their jibes are as inconsequential as, say, people asking about my real life, when it is an open book, pretty much, thinking they're going to unearth something to use in their rags.

Usually, people who try to get at me, and Ms CG, tend towards the Labour end of the political spectrum, for reasons which it would be a waste of space to explain. If you haven't figured that out by now, why are you reading this?

One such, which I use merely as an example, was someone who signed "Joseph Grech" on his comment on the story which got me going on this piece. I don't aspire to heights of Sherlockian deductive prowess, but when someone writes "I used to read the articles by Ms. Daphne Caruana Galizia once but stopped doing that on realizing that she is unfortunately Politically Blinkered and Socially Biased ", I believe I am not a million miles from the truth.

If nothing else, the use of CAPITALS betrays the chap as a denizen of Elfdom: to his credit, his grammar and syntax are not of the worst.

Grech has every right, of course, to occupy a spot in the hierarchy of the regiments of Li'l Elves (just to use an alternate spelling, since some pedant picked me up on it a couple of days ago) but what becomes worrying, because it throws light on the political thoughts of the Lil'Elves (back to the old spelling, I prefer it) outside the direct sphere, is his next statement.

Mr Grech wrote that "[what] Lowell actually desires is Malta's intrinsic well-being. He may have been a trifle too vehement at times but I believe most Maltese deep down admire his stand in the illegal immigration issue. I myself do."

Think closely on this, my friend. Someone who clearly militates in the anti-DCG, and presumably anti-me, blogosphere, if only as a minor player, and who by being anti-DCG (at least in the way he is) thinks that the convicted racist Lowell has Malta's interests at heart, his only sin being that he is a trifle too vehement.

Lowell is the person who - mistakenly in my humble opinion - was given space on Bondi+ some weeks ago to spew vicious nonsense about handicapped persons being euthanized, about adoptees of colour and their (Maltese) parents being shipped back to Africa and about Jews being the source of all evil. There was more, of course, not least of which the view of women and their place, but if nothing else came of the programme, it was clear that Lowell is seriously delusional, though vicious nonetheless.

But according to Grech, most Maltese deep down admire his stand in the illegal immigration issue, this stand being, according to Lowell himself a couple of years ago, to let them drown.

According to people like Grech, the majority of Maltese will be wanting a Labour government too, come the day. I know this juxtaposition is unfair and that racism forms no part of Labour's political manifesto at all, but isn't it about time someone took a grip on their Lil'Elves?