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A missing mobile phone? This is officially the ‘dog ate my homework’ entry in the whole saga
The Skinny | No 15. Keith Schembri’s Missing Mobile Phone
The Skinny | No 15. Keith Schembri’s Missing Mobile...
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That reference to a ‘gang’ that tarnished Malta was pretty badass
The Skinny | No 14. President George Vella’s Republic Day Speech
The Skinny | No 14. President George Vella’s...
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‘OMG JM got owned! Yas queen, Metzzzi!’
The Skinny | No 13. Roberta Metsola Refuses To Shake Hands With Joseph Muscat
The Skinny | No 13. Roberta Metsola Refuses To Shake Hands...
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This week of rolling news has been hysterically entertaining. More, please!
The Skinny | No 12. The Media in Times of Crisis
The Skinny | No 12. The Media in Times of Crisis
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MaltaToday at 20: Don’t say: ‘Less double-page analyses, more listicles please!’
The Skinny | No 11. MaltaToday’s 20th anniversay
The Skinny | No 11. MaltaToday’s 20th anniversay
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So all this 17 Black and Keith Schembri saga is a game of courtroom ‘chicken’? Basically, yes
No 10. | Keith Schembri and 17 Black
No 10. | Keith Schembri and 17 Black
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Gerard James Borg’s saucy bedroom parables certainly fill a gap in the book market
The Skinny | No 9. Gerard James Borg
The Skinny | No 9. Gerard James Borg
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Surely it’s mostly an American thing that sort of trickled down... But that’s precisely it
No 8. Halloween
No 8. Halloween
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Doing our darndest not to simply call it ‘sale of citizenship’ shows a certain jitteriness about the IIP
No 7. The IIP
No 7. The IIP
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An event loaded with political, cultural, social and emotional resonance that cannot be ignored
No 6 • The Daphne vigil
No 6 • The Daphne vigil
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Weepy ballads, strummy guitars and the occasional out-of-tune dud. But where are the buzzers?
No 5 • X Factor Malta
No 5 • X Factor Malta
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Corporate peddling, partisan politics and a small, and apparently dangerous, smidgen of student activism
The Skinny | No 4. Freshers’ Week
The Skinny | No 4. Freshers’ Week
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Celebrating a flyover on the day of a climate strike
The Skinny | No 3. Flyovers
The Skinny | No 3. Flyovers
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Let’s pretend Malta actually does have a clear separation between seasons
The Skinny | No. 2 • End of summer
The Skinny | No. 2 • End of summer
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Let’s just say the political legacy of Malta’s Independence Day is rather fraught
The Skinny • No 1. Independence Day
The Skinny • No 1. Independence Day