The wave of global protests about the anti-Islam trailer The Innocence of Muslims reflects the tensions, contradictions and polarisations of the world within which we live...

Whichever way Mr Speaker might have ruled last night – if he did – I am genuinely convinced that GonziPN will remain boxed in a corner...

When faced with domestic worries, politicians often resort to foreign diversions – a simple axiom that is highly useful in assessing the increasingly tense sovereignty disputes in the East and South China Seas....

“Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.” This is a quote by Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel Prize winner in Literature. ...

The many opinion polls being conducted at this time invariably show a huge section of ‘Don’t Knows, Don’t Tells.’...

Back in the 1980s, Labour in Government froze all wage increases for a number of years, and one of its first decisions on its return to power in 1996 was to freeze Malta's ...

When authority is given a “free reign”, it seems that the human element takes over in a conceited egotistical frenzy, contemptuous in its irrational plight of all others’ concerns....

All mothers insist that their children should study for a rewarding career – which hardly means a future in sport. But this is no longer the case – as it is clear that today’s top athletes ...

Trade union sources gleefully revealed earlier this week that they have negotiated a €60 million increase in salary expenditure to be received by their members, employees of the civil service. ...

The internet has become pervasive: it has penetrated our society so much today that it is difficult for anybody to imagine what it would be like if we did not have ...