Mintoff's caricature appeared in the British Times 50 years ago

Richard Cole, an 82-year-old English artist from Wimbledon in 1975, was commissioned by the British Times to draw a caricature of the architect Dominic Mintoff, who at that time was well known abroad. Cole drew a caricature showing Mintoff dressed as Napoleon Bonaporte, kicking a bulldog, a clear reference to Malta’s independence from the British colony. The caricature appeared in one of the issues of the Times in England together with an articl…