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Like cockroaches, Peppa Pig and its ilk are insidious messengers for the outside world
The Skinny | No 157 – Attack of the Lesbian Polar Bears
The Skinny | No 157 – Attack of the Lesbian Polar...
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Now’s the time to turn the Gwardamangia residence into a morbid Madame Tussaud’s experience
The Skinny | No 156 – The Mourning Royalists Internationale
The Skinny | No 156 – The Mourning Royalists...
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Wasn’t there a crackdown on ill-begotten drivers’ licences back in the early 2000s?
The Skinny | No 155 – Shut Up and Drive
The Skinny | No 155 – Shut Up and Drive
![Slavish support for local MP got me a job. Did the pencil-pushing suckers at Tal-Qroqq get the memo?](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/new-uom-department-focuses-on-gender-issues-20140206.png)
Slavish support for local MP got me a job. Did the pencil-pushing suckers at Tal-Qroqq get the memo?
The Skinny | No 154 – We Don’t Need No Education, Apparently
The Skinny | No 154 – We Don’t Need No...
![The Maltese malaise of selective moral blindness](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/2_1_skinny_luke_seguna.jpeg)
The Maltese malaise of selective moral blindness
The Skinny | No 153 – The Unsinnable Saints
The Skinny | No 153 – The Unsinnable Saints
![Embrace the madness: Congrats, you’ve cracked the Maltese electorate coping code](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/7_op_michael_population.jpg)
Embrace the madness: Congrats, you’ve cracked the Maltese electorate coping code
The Skinny | No 152 – Dense and Sweaty
The Skinny | No 152 – Dense and Sweaty
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Malta a black market dino mecca? The inspiration has to come from somewhere
The Skinny | No 151 – The Dinosaurs Ate My Accounts!
The Skinny | No 151 – The Dinosaurs Ate My Accounts!
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To be fair, I wouldn’t mind skiving work to visit Birmingham
The Skinny | No 150 – Bunburying in Birmingham
The Skinny | No 150 – Bunburying in Birmingham
![Self-cleaning Blue Lagoon? The Ġaħan-army might save us from climate change](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/comino_graffitti.jpg)
Self-cleaning Blue Lagoon? The Ġaħan-army might save us from climate change
The Skinny | No 149 – The Self-Cleaning Blue Lagoon
The Skinny | No 149 – The Self-Cleaning Blue Lagoon
![I laughed when the festa was blocked by the al fresco tables. Sue me](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/39167162_1018153755028640_1534808066464153600_o.jpg)
I laughed when the festa was blocked by the al fresco tables. Sue me
The Skinny | No 148 – Summer fun in Malta & Gozo
The Skinny | No 148 – Summer fun in Malta & Gozo
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Hare-brained platitudes blowing up in a politician’s face will never not be funny
The Skinny | No 147 – The Capital’s Punishments
The Skinny | No 147 – The Capital’s Punishments
![Defending tourists’ right-to-leisure at our expense may as well be etched into our constitution](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/blue-lagoon-pr-image-3.jpg)
Defending tourists’ right-to-leisure at our expense may as well be etched into our constitution
The Skinny | No 145 – Fried Brains Thriving
The Skinny | No 145 – Fried Brains Thriving
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Fat boomers and their każin-grown enablers ruining the party yet again
The Skinny | No 144 – Karma Comino
The Skinny | No 144 – Karma Comino
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Hoping the AI revolution picks up speed so Gravina can just hire robots and spare us his whining
The Skinny | No 143 – Resto Recruitment Blues
The Skinny | No 143 – Resto Recruitment Blues
![Anything can be ġbejna if you let your imagination fly](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/1_skinny_gbejna.jpg)
Anything can be ġbejna if you let your imagination fly
The Skinny | No 142 – The One True Ġbejna
The Skinny | No 142 – The One True Ġbejna
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Fat and loud is a virtue for many, though, surely?
The Skinny | No 141 – Home of the Loud, Land of the Fat
The Skinny | No 141 – Home of the Loud, Land of the...
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Slow news week but inbreeding is one of our last cheap-shot taboos for a laugh
The Skinny | No 140 – Our (Deeply Inbred) Ancestors
The Skinny | No 140 – Our (Deeply Inbred) Ancestors
![Give us an għannej and a bunch of hyperactive dudes around him, extolling booze and partying](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/emma_2.jpeg)
Give us an għannej and a bunch of hyperactive dudes around him, extolling booze and partying
The Skinny | No 138 – Emma Am What Emma Wanna Be
The Skinny | No 138 – Emma Am What Emma Wanna Be