Writing an article in the week between Christmas and New Year during the festive season is a somewhat daunting task. Although parliament is in recess, the general atmosphere seems to get somewhat charged up at this time ...

My last article in this newspaper, published on the Thursday 15 December, dealt with the publication by Transparency International of its annual survey about the perception of corruption...

I hate having to write this for publication in Christmas week, but I am left with no choice because Franco Debono...

On 17 December, North Korea announced that its supreme ‘Dear Leader’, Kim Jong Il, had died in a train carrying him on one of the many inspection tours that he had taken since suffering a stroke in 2008 ...

Many argue that some drugs, especially cannabis, are good to treat certain painful conditions, especially in terminal illnesses...

During a recent private visit to the USA I realised how much the American public and media had finely honed their love-hate relationship towards Christopher Hitchens – who has just passed away after suffering from terminal cancer for years....

The voluntary movement is a phenomenon in every society which does not follow the logical rules of profit and loss, supply and demand. ...

Few would have expected 2011 to be very different from the preceding year. Many were pessimistic about the year ahead, and pessimism breeds in u...

With almost 800 million passengers arriving at and/or departing from airports located in the territory of EU member states in 2010 (according to Eurostat statistics on air passenger transport), the European aviation ...

Political change can take place in a multitude of ways: Rapidly, like a lightning bolt; through a slow or ...