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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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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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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

Tub-thumping on passport selling on 1 May? I wouldn’t be surprised…
Pragmatism cannot be selective. If we justify economic exceptions to survive within the European economic order, we must also make moral exceptions to…
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Matthew Vella
Seven of the best reads (and reels) on Trumpworld tariffs policy this month
Who is panicking about Trumpworld tariffs? When your enemy is making mistakes, be sure not to tell them about it… China looks on as America upends the…
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Matthew Vella

March 2025

Malta stumps for Meloni challenge in ECJ over safe countries by floating Refugees’ Convention amendments
Malta’s sabre-rattling on Convention reform, whether it is even a real attempt or not, is there to aid Italy’s (and Fortress Europe’s) migration regime
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Matthew Vella
Why can’t Metsola get to use the word ‘genocide’ for what is happening in Gaza?
Palestinian children are being killed by design. But Roberta Metsola and Robert Abela know that once you acknowledge genocide, you have to respond to…
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Is European rearmament the path to security, or a fantasy with no basis in reality?
A reality-check on European capabilities and fragmentation underscores the need for the EU to double down on peace and humanitarianism
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Matthew Vella
A week of Trump 2.0, ReArm Europe and Maltese PM declaring lack of faith in Ukrainian victory
Robert Abela has clearly aligned Malta with the Trumpworld vision of peace in Ukraine, which he said cannot reasonably expect to win against Russia
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