Reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei’s surprise pullout from the presidential race has laid bare the messiness of Egypt’s transition to democracy with less than six months left for the ruling generals to hand over power...

Regardless of what may be decided in Parliament later this week as well as irrespective of what the House Business Committee may have decided yesterday there is one certainty...

Iowa and New Hampshire have had their say. Next up are South Carolina and Florida, with Germany and France lurking in the background....

Forty years ago, I stood with a few other students in a busy Oxford street handing out leaflets protesting the use of battery cages to hold hens...

The government and the PN seem to have been so upset and unprepared for the possibility of losing their single seat majority in Parliament that they have lost all sense ...

At the height of last summer, overwhelmed by the communal despair brought about by the disastrous debut of Arriva and the accumulated injustice...

You’re all probably as sick of the sound of his name and the sight of his face as I am, but he’s put himself in the limelight where he thinks he belongs, ...

If the government had to win the vote of confidence that will be taken in Parliament in the coming days, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi should still call an early election....

Interesting times. 2012 has begun very much in the way 2011 ended:  with the fireworks, the ominous cloud of crisis(es) and a general holding of breath for what is to come. ...

Over the last three years, the government has introduced a number of initiatives to meet the needs of our young people and give them a say, through decision-making groups, on matters that affect them and their future. ...