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![COVID-19 hit soon after Muscat stepped down from office. ‘Coincidence? I think not!’](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/joseph_muscat_coronavirus_skinny.png)
COVID-19 hit soon after Muscat stepped down from office. ‘Coincidence? I think not!’
The Skinny • No. 34 | Joseph Muscat, COVID Economy Hero
The Skinny • No. 34 | Joseph Muscat, COVID Economy Hero
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‘Artfully arranged plants don’t have to follow social distancing rules!’
The Skinny | No. 33 | The Valletta Green Festival 2020
The Skinny | No. 33 | The Valletta Green Festival 2020
![Getting it down to minus one means we’ve killed the virus for good, right?](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/covid_mask.jpg)
Getting it down to minus one means we’ve killed the virus for good, right?
The Siinny • No. 32 | Malta’s Infection Rate Drops to Below 1
The Siinny • No. 32 | Malta’s Infection Rate...
![Zero cases? Beach party for my friends, we’ll lick the seafront clean!](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/12.1_mc_set_over-tourism.jpg)
Zero cases? Beach party for my friends, we’ll lick the seafront clean!
The Skinny • No. 31 | The Unberable Lightness of Low COVID cases
The Skinny • No. 31 | The Unberable Lightness of...
![Surgical masks and disposable plastic gloves basically count as an invincibility cloak, right?](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/1_art_interview.png)
Surgical masks and disposable plastic gloves basically count as an invincibility cloak, right?
The Skinny • No. 30 | Death
The Skinny • No. 30 | Death
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Coronavirus: A rediscovery of the vocabulary
Prof. Adrian Grima from the University of Malta’s Faculty of Maltese...
Prof. Adrian Grima from the University of Malta’s...
![Pig-headed application of ingrained privilege. Something to tick off the list once all this is over?](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/20170901122139-c-shotgun_hunting.jpg)
Pig-headed application of ingrained privilege. Something to tick off the list once all this is over?
No. 29 | Spring Hunting and the Global Pandemic
No. 29 | Spring Hunting and the Global Pandemic
![Sure, it took a global pandemic, but we’ll finally get a chance at some peace in summer](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/_7505003.png)
Sure, it took a global pandemic, but we’ll finally get a chance at some peace in summer
The Skinny | No 28. No Village Feasts in the Time of Corona
The Skinny | No 28. No Village Feasts in the Time of Corona
![The pandemic really has put a timer on Muscatian feel-good political rhetoric, hasn’t it? Indeed](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/silvio_schembri_kpmg.jpeg)
The pandemic really has put a timer on Muscatian feel-good political rhetoric, hasn’t it? Indeed
The Skinny | No. 27. Silvio Schembri & Post-Covid Third Country Nationals
The Skinny | No. 27. Silvio Schembri & Post-Covid...
![Destiny’s song may be generic pap, but it’s also a serviceable pop anthem](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/destiny-malta-eurovision-2020-all-my-loive.png)
Destiny’s song may be generic pap, but it’s also a serviceable pop anthem
The Skinny | No 26. ‘All My Love’ by Destiny
The Skinny | No 26. ‘All My Love’ by Destiny
![The kind of macho ‘charisma’ espoused by the likes of Chetcuti will solve exactly nothing](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/5433_1.png)
The kind of macho ‘charisma’ espoused by the likes of Chetcuti will solve exactly nothing
The Skinny | No 25. MDA President Sandro Chetcuti
The Skinny | No 25. MDA President Sandro Chetcuti
![Panic-buying during the relatively mild coronavirus outbreak is a sobering litmus test](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/222222.jpg)
Panic-buying during the relatively mild coronavirus outbreak is a sobering litmus test
The Skinny | No 24. Bulk buying in the time of the coronavirus
The Skinny | No 24. Bulk buying in the time of the...
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![Malta police arrests: normality and working institutions? That’s a kaleidoscopic hall of mirrors kind of statement…](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/screen_shot_2020-02-24_at_10.26.28.png)
Malta police arrests: normality and working institutions? That’s a kaleidoscopic hall of mirrors kind of statement…
The Skinny | No 23. Mass arrest of Malta’s traffic police
The Skinny | No 23. Mass arrest of Malta’s traffic...
![A cheque every now and then is good, but send me one every week and you’ll have a voter for life](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/milk_and_bread.jpg)
A cheque every now and then is good, but send me one every week and you’ll have a voter for life
No 21. Edward Scicluna’s bread-and-milk money
No 21. Edward Scicluna’s bread-and-milk money
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I can see how such a pandemic can lead to racist attitudes towards the Chinese...
The Skinny | No 22. Coronavirus
The Skinny | No 22. Coronavirus
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Konrad Mizzi: He’s not a politician’s politician, let’s put it that way
The Skinny | No 20. Konrad Mizzi
The Skinny | No 20. Konrad Mizzi
![Get that float out there as is and let’s start the year with a bang!](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/banned_carnival_float.jpg)
Get that float out there as is and let’s start the year with a bang!
The Skinny | No 19. The St Joseph Home Carnival Float
The Skinny | No 19. The St Joseph Home Carnival Float
![Wasn’t it Plato who said that all kings should be bodybuilders, and all bodybuilders be kings?](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/1_skinny_robert_abela.jpeg)
Wasn’t it Plato who said that all kings should be bodybuilders, and all bodybuilders be kings?
No 18. Robert Abela: Bodybuilder
No 18. Robert Abela: Bodybuilder