At the risk of being branded a prophet of doom, I feel I have to admit that I am worried about the viability of our microstate. I believe that as a nation we are failing to seriously address how we...

The increases in food prices (added to other factors) are disrupting political decision-making in Europe. Prices have increased too much at too fast a pace. Governments can hardly rely any more on the...

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid people. That is the first of five fundamental laws of human stupidity drawn up in 1976 by an Italian, aptly named Carlo Cipolla,...

The saga of the life-saving abortion required by American tourist Andrea Prudente has come to an end in Malta. Her case has now been exported to the Spanish island of Mallorca where...

The example comes from of all places Kuwait which has been experiencing over 50 degrees repeatedly in summer these past years. One solitary woman has taken over a small area, comparable to a...

Naples, last week, was the meeting place for all the Culture Ministers of the Euro-Mediterranean region.   The conference was both timely and necessary, given the...

At last the news came that the grey paint splashed at us in our role as a financial centre a year ago would be rubbed off. We had not been showing, it was then said, the required  stringency when...

In a recent interview on The World, a global daily news programme, academic Diogo Veríssimo, from the University of Montpellier, told host Marco Werman that species of reef fishes which are...

It has become part of the political game, common to all participants, that they can be criticised not for what they did or did not do, but as well for what was done or could have been done by those...

It’s that time of the academic year that is fraught with exam script correction, dissertation reading and moderation, orals, vivas, assignment reviews and frustrating electronic marking...