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Zvezdan Reljić, beloved photographic artist and MaltaToday designer, who opened his home to creatives, and left behind a unique body of artistic work.

On no-consent rape, Malta shies away from zealous EU definition

White-collar crime: Disbarred lawyer off the hook because defrauded UK investor intended to avoid tax with Malta ruse

US traffickers planned to move $54 million to ‘crypto mecca’ Malta

Smoke and mirrors: Dalligate probe gets accountability slap

Vladimir Putin financier’s Malta yacht delisted from US sanctions

Maltese Constitution impervious to EU law... when defending gaming industry from cross-border disputes!

Travel-sick: fatigue from overtourism wipes off the Maltese smile

This prime minister is for turning: the costly moves of Robert Abela

[WATCH] Labour mayor on Ħondoq: now State must expropriate land for national park

Jean Paul Sofia homicide: architect simulated €250,000 donation to live-in partner

Why do business lobbies get free cash from public solar farms?

Anti-mafia cops from the DIA tell Italian MPs of Malta base for fugitives

Labour’s super-majority obsession ahead of 2024 shuts the door on women’s health and lives

Pastor Manché: gay conversions, end times, anti-vax conspirator and Trump love

Minister has full powers on phone-tapping: judge calls laws ‘incestuous’

Migration fear debunking 3: one in four foreign workers leaves after a year, another 25% leaves after four

Labour, once a staunch opponent of NATO programme, goes to House for PfP approval

Muscat in Smash TV interview: dog-whistle politics in the war against ‘the freemasons’

Ceca, wife of war criminal Arkan, in Malta concert

The worst of times: KMB and Malta’s ‘years of lead’

The Kissinger Cables, 3. Mintoff shows off his non-aligned manhood

The Kissinger Cables, 2. Mintoff, America, and Mario Felice

The Kissinger Cables, 1. Mintoff in the eyes of America

The show we always wanted to watch (but were too afraid to ask for)

Dom in the flesh: carnal passions of the great socialist

Sant memoirs: Mintoff’s watery stew, cheap plonk, and his Gang of Four

A theory of violence

Steward: why privatisation is bad for us, and only benefits shareholders (especially when thieves are working so hard on the deal)

The garden of forgiveness: healing the trauma of the Interdett

Russians leverage Fuhrergate for some laughable PR on the Red Army...

A monument to the victims of the 1961 Interdiction is long overdue. But it should occupy a public space

Illegal lotto’s annual €10 million turnover has to be cleaned somehow. In property construction

Why ‘All Lives Matter’ is dismissive and a foil for racists and the far-right in Malta

Far-right nutters come aplenty in Malta. Why are they on our TV sofas?

Parents’ lockdown blues: the struggle was real

An orchestration of pain

More Supermarket debt ruse: back-story to the Ryan Schembri ‘Maksar’ deal

Migration fear debunking 2. Malta’s ok with low-paid working class paying high rents

On that 3-course, €90-a-head Malta resto bill...

Migration fear debunking 1. Malta has a low number of asylum claims

Threads of truthiness: red Russian herrings

Smuggled Libyan fuel got Customs clearance. Police should have investigated that

Darren Debono wanted the fuel smuggling stories to stop. So he texted me a photo I had of my daughter from my WhatsApp profile

Butlers to the cosmopolites? We’ll pay the price

New Yorker #3

Ajma! Jaqq! Istra! Sounds from that 2013 Labour pépé ‘Courage To Vote’ ad

Maltese child migrants to Australia endured sexual abuse by the clerics they were entrusted to

New Yorker #2

New Yorker #1

It’s time for Labour to talk about greedy fuckers like Keith...

Lawyer Carmel Chircop gave More Supermarket directors €750,000 interest-free loan. He was then killed. Adrian Agius was one of the chief suspects questioned

The story of Martin Cachia, a fisherman connected to the smuggling world, and victim of the car-bomb vendettas

ABC’s ‘Two Trumpets for St Andrew’ is a deep dive into 1968 Malta

Speculating on the prospect of Roberta Metsola being pushed for EPP lead candidate (and EC boss) should Von der Leyen not take up a second term (although that is far from ruled out)

Passport To Vice has its own soundtrack...

How I wrote ‘Passport To Vice’, the first true crime history of Maltese vice in London’s Soho