Finance ministers are happier when earnings coming into their country are consistently greater than the purchase cost of imported goods; a trad...

For my sins, pun intended, I am very rarely in agreement with most Vatican standpoints on certain issues, particularly divorce, women priests and celibacy. But when the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato Martino, ...

The topic of political discrimination recently came up in the political debate going on in our country. Some politicians tend to deny that political intimida...

The so-called donor scandals surrounding the Labour Party in the UK, and our own local debates about party funding, demonstrates above all else a schizophrenic attitude to the way we do politics in a modern democracy....

A year ago it was reported that the Maltese Embassy in Riyadh had managed to get Saudi tour operators interested in destination Malta (TOM, 24 October 2006). Later, the Excelsior Hotel management ...

In politics, as in love, silence is more beneficial than speech. The discerning electorate takes careful measurement of its circumstances and acts accordingly....

One of the most frightening aspects of the human race is not its propensity towards cruelty, but its seemingly limitless ability to reason with its nether regions. People go to school; they read books and newspapers and...

Near the entrance to the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi were two famous inscriptions: “know thyself”, and “nothing in excess”. These inscriptions were intentionally open to interpretation...

The increase in the price of cereals and the extraordinary effect that this is having on the world economy dominated the meeting of the Agricultural Council in which I took part last week. ...

The roundabouts are being lit up. Driving through the various towns and villages one finds streets lit up and decorated. ...