Industrial policy (IP) is back – or rather, back in fashion. Of course, it never really went away, even in countries formally adhering to free-market principles...

A recent National Geographic issue synthesised in a wonderful way the advances being made in stem cell research and the successes coming through, which will soon render the debate on embryonic stem cells obsolete...

Spectators at February’s Daytona 500 in Florida were handed green flags to wave in celebration of the news that the race’s stock cars now use gasoline with 15% corn-based ethanol...

While I have no hesitation in condemning the Prime Minister for his fundamentalist speech on the divorce issue in Parliament...

An operation to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya will almost certainly establish quick superiority over Muammar Gaddafi’s outdated air force...

A fortnight ago the finance minister, politically responsible for the restructuring process of Air Malta, returned the report by Ernst and Young (E&Y) to its authors for ‘fundamental changes’...

That Malta is a nation of cowards is disputable, if the general anger and disappointment at the stance taken by prime minister Lawrence Gonzi and foreign affairs minister Tonio Borg is anything to go on. But that Malta is a nation led by cowards ...

We as a nation seem to be spending most of our time correcting the long-neglected mistakes in our national make-up. ...

They say the true mettle of a leader can be seen in a time of crisis, and Libya is turning out to be Lawrence Gonzi’s test....

The quote of the week must be Gaddafi’s “If the world is crazy we will be crazy too”, after the UN finally passed the no fly zone resolution, which many of us were worried would never ...