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The Skinny | No. 57 – Joseph Muscat Helps A Buddy Out
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The Skinny | No. 56 – The Hunter-Ranger Elite of Miżieb and L-Aħrax
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Herrera should have traded the Maltese shark tooth for one of Queen Victoria’s molars
The Skinny | No. 55 • Jose Herrera’s Misadventures in Historical Dental Recovery
The Skinny | No. 55 • Jose Herrera’s...
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Schembri’s ultimate plight… could be illustrative of the ‘Taghna Lkoll/L-Aqwa Zmien’ narrative in a nutshell
The Skinny | No. 54 • Keith Schembri’s Frozen Assets
The Skinny | No. 54 • Keith Schembri’s Frozen...
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As long as Ian Borg’s okay with criticism, then my hours lost to idle commuting are not for naught
The Skinny | No. 53 • Wet Ass Road Structures
The Skinny | No. 53 • Wet Ass Road Structures
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Surely Fearne kicks himself for not booking the long weekends before Abela
The Skinny | No. 52 • The PM’s weekend breaks
The Skinny | No. 52 • The PM’s weekend breaks
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Back to school? Stop having kids. During a pandemic, it’s the decent thing to do
The Skinny | No. 51 • Back to School!
The Skinny | No. 51 • Back to School!
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Being stoned by the same rocks they defaced seems to be the only punishment equal to the crime
The Skinny | No. 50 • Red Arrows on Rocks
The Skinny | No. 50 • Red Arrows on Rocks
What happens when we let the authorities – medical or otherwise – define what constitutes ‘proper’ food?
The Skinny: No. 49 • Crisps!
The Skinny: No. 49 • Crisps!
Scicluna’s compassion straw man card: ‘Yes, there was corruption, but think of the children’
The Skinny | No. 48 • Edward Scicluna Testifies
The Skinny | No. 48 • Edward Scicluna Testifies
It’s Charmaine, Season 2. And you’ll soon have fans clamouring for a Chris Fearne spin-off
The Skinny | No. 47 • Prof Charmaine Gauci: Season 2
The Skinny | No. 47 • Prof Charmaine Gauci: Season 2
‘The Pandemic Party Hub won’t start itself, ladies and gentlemen! Hop into the pool and never look back!’
The Skinny | No. 46 • The Great Pandemic-Party Spike
The Skinny | No. 46 • The Great Pandemic-Party Spike
Summer is when all lizard-men Illuminati crawl into homes in oddly incompetent murder attempts!
The Skinny | No. 45 • Melvin Theuma Conspiracy Theories
The Skinny | No. 45 • Melvin Theuma Conspiracy...
I’ve seen too many 90s B-movies to know that suspect documents are never lost
The Skinny | No. 44 • The One About the Missing Memorandum
The Skinny | No. 44 • The One About the Missing...
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What if Renzo Piano had fitted ejector seats into his design for the new Parliament?
The Skinny | No. 43 | Adrian Delia Stays Put
The Skinny | No. 43 | Adrian Delia Stays Put
Boris is already a portly gentleman. What if he had is-Serkin within driving distance?
The Skinny | No. 42 • Boris Johnson: National Fat-Shamer Supreme
The Skinny | No. 42 • Boris Johnson: National...
We’re fast running out of scapegoats for Malta’s corruption cases. Now that’s what I call a crisis!
The Skinny | No 41 • Konrad: Kicking and Screaming
The Skinny | No 41 • Konrad: Kicking and Screaming
Sure, placing migrants on pleasure boats owned by a now-disgraced former ambassador to Finland doesn’t send the right message
The Skinny | No. 39 • The Captain Morgan Boat Migrant Fiasco
The Skinny | No. 39 • The Captain Morgan Boat Migrant...
No Charmaine, no danger. That’s the way I’ll be looking at the situation from now on
The Skinny | No. 38 • The End of Profs Gauci’s Televised Health Updates
The Skinny | No. 38 • The End of Profs...
‘Let’s absolutely jam-pack the Granaries to Isle of MTV levels the next time 0 cases are reported!’
The Skinny • No. 37 | Floriana FC vs Social Distancing
The Skinny • No. 37 | Floriana FC vs Social Distancing
