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 ...

In one sense, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il changes everything...

Some years ago, I used to receive cascades of traffic offence tickets through the post. Because I spent most of my day driving around back then, I couldn’t really say whether they were justified or not, though I had strong suspicions they weren’t...

In his dozen years of leading Russia, Vladimir Putin has been the one doing the talking. Now he may have to learn how to be a listener...

In June, it was Greece. In August, it was France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. In September, it was Greece again – and Spain...

In March 1997, while serving as President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel – who died on 18 December — offered the following assessment of the intersection of politics and playwriting in his life...