Malta is the EU's most obese country. Would a fat tax change that?
The best Maltese modelling of a food tax promises a real but modest result, and only if the tax is set high and the subsidy kept small. Denmark's attempt was scrapped within 15 months. The evidence still points towards taxing, but not towards taxing fat.
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Before moving into an old Maltese house, people wondered whether somebody was already living there. Who was il-Ħares, and how did he differ from the restless dead?
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Malta became independent in 1964, in the middle of the great wave of British decolonisation. The date was typical. The route it took to get there was not.
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