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July 2025

We’re two minutes to midnight on the millionaire takeover of planning laws: this is not a drill
The government’s planning bills will nuke our rigged planning regime – the fallout will haunt us for generations to come
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Matthew Vella
Labour heatwave: MaltaToday calls out Prime Minister for his dishonesty on a wicked planning overhaul
“Labour can now stop quoting 2006 as the year of planning shame to justify present ills and blame them on past Nationalist administrations. That moral…
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Matthew Vella
Anger is an energy: and there are five reasons to be with Labour’s planning bill
Planning bill? More like the mafiopoli sweepstakes! Parliament is heading for an August law to benefit from a weakened Opposition - know what is at…
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Matthew Vella

June 2025

Send Gaza your eSIMS to keep exposing the war crimes of the Israeli genocide
Internet, phone services completely cut off in Gaza after Israeli strikes. Palestinian telecom authority warns of full digital blackout as Israeli…
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Matthew Vella
Guilty verdicts for the Maksar gang, who supplied bomb that killed Caruana Galizia and murdered lawyer over More Supermarkets loan
In both events, stories in MaltaToday and the Times of Malta detailed the rise of the Maksars and the events leading up to the murder of Carmel Chircop
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Matthew Vella
I signed the open letter to Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, denouncing her inaction in the face of the genocide of…
To our shame we left it late to collectively speak out, but those in leadership roles are obliged to take up the fiercest of fights against those…
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Matthew Vella

May 2025

Another teachable moment from the sharp end of the Terrygate/free speech fallout
In the Maltese desert of comedy, many different experiences have met at the cultural faultlines of the way gender has changed
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Matthew Vella
Wanna be adored? Get ready to be poked, prodded and roasted
The inability to tolerate offence, litigated in social media, the press and even the law courts, only exposes our national cultural fragility
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Matthew Vella
Call the Israeli ambassador. Shelter the flotilla. Say it plainly: Malta will not be complicit
Israel’s calculated attack on the flotilla is a message: even those who try to break the siege nonviolently will be met with force. So what will Malta’s…
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Matthew Vella

April 2025

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