Mal Fletcher, Next Wave International
Susan Boyle and the celebrity machine - when will we learn?
A relatively quiet and normal life may suit someone like Susan Boyle far better than the life of instant worldwide name and face recognition that seems to have opened up before her, says Mal Fletcher.
Assisted dying: Is it really so merciful?
Supporters of assisted dying often say that it is an individual choice. That may or may not be, but it is all too often made in the midst of great loneliness, by people who feel that the world has ceased to care and that nobody treats them with the dignity they deserve.
Aids: What can we do?
Everyone has a part to play in ending the scourge of HIV and Aids, especially the church.
What Obama needs to do
It's not Obama that some people fear - or claim to. It is more the idea of change itself.
Financial crisis: A time for caution but not fear
There are higher measures of value and higher sources of security than the markets can offer.
Credit crunches, greed & discontentment - What can we learn?
Much of the blame for the current mess must be laid at the feet of players in the money market game - a game that's played with other people's futures... Yet there's also an opportunity here for the rest of us, who are left to sort out mortgages and balance our family budgets, to reflect on our priorities.
Political correctness - can you legislate tolerance?
Hardly a week goes by anywhere in the developed world without us reading in the press something or other about the forces of political correctness.
Mal Fletcher: Europe's Teen Drink Problem
A German boy, aged 15, lapsed into a coma recently after excessive alcohol consumption at a 'Flat Rate Party'.