“There are deeply authoritarian characters in the Iranian regime who would have no hesitation in using extreme violence against protestors,”...

Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” To seek to reduce the suffering of those who are completely under one’s domination, and unable to ...

With 23 million citizens out of work and an average youth unemployment rate approaching 20%, unemployment is one of the European Union’s primary challenges – only trumped, perhaps, by the eurozone’s debt crisis...

A switchover of global growth engines is taking place. Developing economies as a whole are now the source of more than half of global GDP growth...

This week I had a fair few things in my diary. By far the most pertinent of these were the passing away of Mrs Fenech Adami and the divorce vote in parliament...

Imagine that the arguments triggered by the Hindenberg disaster were about the fire extinguishers and parachutes that airships should carry, rather than about the design flaws that might cause them to ignite...

The inevitable has happened and the prime minister has voted against the divorce bill...

Once upon a time, there was a country plagued by large deficits, high inflation, and decades of economic stagnation. When economic problems once again became particularly acute...

About eight months ago, my friend Peter Ripard was injured in a horrific and mindless bomb attack on the offices of Transport Malta in Sa’ Maison...

In Anthony Burgess’s novella (and Stanley Kubrick’s film) A Clockwork Orange, Alex, an unrepentant psychopath...