The most serious social issue facing Spain at the moment is undoubtedly unemployment.

Solve unemployment and you solve everything else.

The more that women achieve equality in career opportunities and salaries, the bigger the threat to the traditional structure of the family.

The extreme weather patterns of recent years may indicate that the planet is heading for catastrophe, but the evidence that this is the fault of humans is unconvincing.

The various movements for representative democracy and human rights across Europe and the Arabic world will ultimately achieve very little.

Genetic cloning and the use of stem cells are entirely justifiable as we attempt to fight major diseases like AIDS and cancer and, at the same time, feed the world.

Stress is just a name for problems caused by a negative working environment and therefore cannot be cured by meditation or other therapies.

The print media is already dying on its feet due to the digital revolution: the book industry will be next.

Of all the forms of advertising, junk mail and spam emails must be the least effective: everyone just throws them away or deletes them.

The arts are undoubtedly important in society but there is no way they should be funded by the state or focused on too much in education.

Of all the human rights, freedom of speech is the most important yet sometimes the most difficult to support.

We have not learned from previous financial crises caused by boom and bust economies, so why should we learn from this one?

The idea that terrorist is just another name for freedom fighter is ridiculous. There is no justification for the murder of innocent people.