The theme of this year’s World Intellectual Property Day, which was commemorated recently, is about the starting point of all intellectual property, the seeds from which all innovations and creative works grow – ideas....

Italy’s parliament, unlike ours, has long been a place of interest, humour and controversy, a parliament that normally (with Berlusconi being one notable exception) collapses like a pack of cards every time the slightest of breezes wafts along. ...

This week I was really spoilt for choice on what topic to write about. I was first inclined to write about Dr Austin Gatt’s cheap verbal attack on the tourism industry during the opening ceremony of the AMITEX fair....

Caught as we are at home in between selling and moving house soon, part of a downsizing exercise meant to coincide with the inevitable passage of time, my one and only real dilemma is not what to do with all ...

The first rule of politics in a tiny town-like island like Malta is be nice to people and treat them well. The second is to be competent. And the third is never be arrogant....

It’s such a shame that Vince Marshall has called off his protest pilgrimage against the screening of The Da Vinci Code. I was looking forward to it very much. ...

Notwithstanding a radical Public Service Reform, and an Operations Review some years back, large segments of the civil service are still manned by inadequately trained personnel, often out of their depth....

Liberal representative democracy must, at all times, keep a wary eye on two economic endemic threats which could best be described as economic contradictions within the system. ...

This week we had some interesting themes to ponder about. The escalating subject of low-cost carriers is one of them. ...

John Kenneth Galbraith, who passed away last Saturday at age 97, was an influential American economist of the 20th century. ...