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Something Borrowed, Mainly Stolen

Personal Substack from journalist Matthew Vella, news/TV fixer, author and all-round print + digital dabbler

Malta-based hack and author of true crime history of Maltese vice in Soho, ‘Passport To Vice’ (Horizons, 2022)

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