Having previously visited China way back in November 1978 when I was still President of the MLP, this time round I was able to gauge the massive changes underway as well as the great strides forward that this country has made....

When it comes to mental illness and all manner of disability, when it comes to colour, sex or race we are now very aware of using language that does not create false barriers and perceptions, that do not increase our biases and prejudices unnecessarily. ...

I am confident that each and every one of us, at some point or other, has expressed to himself or herself, the desire that our nation’s overall performance, is enhanced to ...

As we watch history digesting the future, we rely on probabilities rather than certainties. ...

The Stability and Growth Pact version 1 has collapsed. On the insistence of France and Germany, with some assistance from Italy, ...

Good Friday just has to be the most tedious day in the calendar. It turns the country into a ghost town, populated, if at all, by the living dead. ...

When I opened the bathroom door I was shocked. It was brightly-lit, clinical, the sort you would find at a doctor’s office....

It's amazing how many people in this country seem to genuinely believe that the flow of traffic is somehow directly proportional to the loudness of their car's horn. ...

Resurrection is the direct consequence of death. There can be no resurrection without death. To have the economic resurrection we need, we must either be already economically dead or we must economically die first....

By this time, the fall-out from the last round of local council elections has settled down and the spin doctors, who worked overtime to construe their respective interpretation of the results, have exhausted their arguments....