Everyone everywhere has by now heard about the “clash of civilisations.” This Samuel Huntington concept has become universal. In the 1950s, French economist Alfred Sauvy had a comparable success with the expression “third world”....

Last week, during the Parliamentary session that was held in Strasbourg, the delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee ...

This is not meant as any offence against the valid candidates who have come forward for the three pivotal leadership posts of the party.But I am sure that some humour and wry comments at this moment in time will not do anyone any harm....

After a century that saw two world wars, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin’s Gulag, the killing fields of Cambodia, and more recent atrocities in Rwanda and now Darfur,...

The five years ahead promise to be years of opportunities and challenges for the entire country. It is up to each and every one of us to know how best to tap those opportunities...

In all the years that we have lived in a rural area, rather than in town, our every spring has been marred by the sound of gunfire. From before dawn to dusk and beyond, the sound has echoed through the valley and across the fields....

It’s a week in the sign of two – a pairing here, a pair of indecent boobs there and a question of double jeopardy. It’s sad to think that I have very little space to write about the little matter of comic double-entendre....

For the third time, the Maltese electorate faces a situation where its affairs are to be handled by a government propelled by a one-seat parliamentary majority. ...

“I must follow them. I am their leader” is the witty quote most often attributed to Andrew Bonar Law, British Conservative prime minister in the early twenties. ...

A highly qualified profession ensures a good balance between the professional autonomy of teachers and their public and social accountability. ...