The EP travels between Brussels and Strasbourg throughout the year. This seems to be an incredible waste of taxpayers’ money. What led to this situation and why is it not rectified?...

Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, Dawn Brancheau, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her. By the time rescuers arrived, Brancheau was dead. ...

We are living in times of reform and reform must happen. Not of the patchwork type which is just a waste of money we do not have. Nor of the political type that has a very short life-span...

“That demo is going to be the social profile equivalent of London’s anti-fox-hunting-ban rallies, except without the Barbour jackets and the Hunter wellies, which my American spell-check, embarrassingly, insists on changing to willies.”...

China’s businessmen have always needed resilience, but now they must become accustomed to the spectre of bankruptcy. For China now has a bankruptcy code with teeth, and the country’s courts are beginning to enforce it with rigour. ...

“Doctors have already argued about the implausibility of the 24/7 coverage and the Minister has accepted that it will not be in the next proposal. But we still need to work out what form of contractual relationship we are taking on”...

The concept of energy poverty might be something new for the Maltese isles but it is something that Maltese taxpayers will soon come to discover once they start being billed for their utility rates with effect from 1 January, 2010....

“Just by adjusting the way the tariffs are calculated the consumer would be spared from paying about €15 million”...

“Private businesses will see their outlays rising by €51.7m over the April 2009 tariffs and by €34.3m over the October 2008 tariffs”...

Over the last 10 years or so, Malta has seen the growth of an obvious, clear-cut social group – a demimonde or alternative society of those who would have been social pariahs in previous generations. ...