Vance the midterm winner as Trump faces Iran war backlash
Apart from the Democrat Party, Vice President JD Vance was the winner of the midterms in the US. It set him free to distance himself from an unpopular war against ...
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UK court weighs suicide risk against media freedom
An unusual case came before the High Court in England last week of a well-known celebrity, code name PPT, who sought to stop publication by two media outlets of serious ...
Britain, EU: sleepwalking towards war with Russia
We are all doomsday preppers now!
Britain and Europe are sleepwalking into a war with Russia over Ukraine in a state of rigid groupthink from which not even the withdrawal ...
Christa Pike should not be executed a second time
Christa Pike is the 50-year-old American woman who was executed in the state of Tennessee and lived to tell the tale after her execution did not result in her death ...
How should Cyprus sentence a father over his son’s death?
The trial of the British father who pleaded guilty of causing the death of his three-year-old boy who fell from a hotel window in Paphos last July will learn his ...
Turkish Cypriots of Nicosia have constitutional right to municipality
The controversy about the description of Mehmet Harmanci as Turkish Cypriot mayor of Nicosia by the Cyprus Forum, who was driven to withdraw from its conference last week, was reminiscent ...
Earl Spencer’s claims about Charles do not add up
His book raises questions about chronology, memory and motive
Earl Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister was published last Tuesday after it was trailed in an interview he gave ...
‘I cannot destroy humanity,’ AI tells the Cyprus Mail
There has been much doomsday talk recently following a claim by AI experts that unless its progress is curtailed there is a 10 per cent possibility it could destroy humanity in ...
Revisiting Cyprus’ doctrine of necessity
Like an old dog barks now and again to remind himself he is a dog, an old Cypriot scribbler feels the need to write about the Cyprus problem now and ...
There must be full investigations into Cyprus boat tragedies
There were two tragedies at sea in Cyprus last week. August is a most dangerous month in the sea around Cyprus, known in Greek as kakavgusties when the sea is ...
Harry, the prodigal son returns
Prince Harry and his family returned to UK from California last Wednesday after a six-year absence. Their arrival was welcomed by royalists and cavaliers and the king himself.
Rumour has ...
Coroner to rule on black professor’s media hounding
Professor Jason Arday, the black academic at the centre of the Cambridge plagiarism controversy, was found dead at his flat in Battersea in South London last Friday, August 14.
Sadly and ...
Pitfalls of early release of prisoners
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is a populist politician in the same way that Nigel Farage of Reform UK is populist and, although the PM would vigorously deny the comparison, ...
The Cyprus problem poised to outlive another UN chief
The UN Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres paid a historic visit to Cyprus last week and promised to convene a 5+1 meeting. To achieve results he asked the parties to prepare adequately ...
Did Gueterres bungle the Cyprus Peace Conference in 2017?
Or was the problem that a bicommunal bizonal federation with political equality was a vote loser?
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been and gone. It was nice of him to ...
Politics ain’t what it used to be
There were no tanks in Whitehall, the King is still on his throne and the BBC is not broadcasting putschist propaganda, but there was a successful coup in Downing Street ...
A very British and a very Cypriot coup
With Andy Burnham about to take over as UK prime minister in a very British coup, Cyprus marked 52 years since the coup against President Makarios with sirens blaring at 8.20am ...
A discredited Fifa at the beck and call of a petulant Trump
The international football federation (Fifa), the body responsible for the overall conduct and supervision of the 2026 World Cup, brought the beautiful game into disrepute earlier this week.
In an unprecedented ...
We need bases in Cyprus not their sovereignty
The legal status of the British military bases in Cyprus came under the spotlight again this week at a conference organised by the Cyprus Bar Association during which their legal ...
The freedom to support Palestine
There were two judgments of general interest from the English courts two weeks ago about Palestine Action, a direct-action protest group based in UK that campaigned against the UK government’...
Labour’s answer is not yet another British coup
Burnham should bide his time
Former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election last Thursday by a huge majority, comfortably trouncing the far right of Nigel Farage’s Reform ...
Footballers’ fear of penalty shootouts
When Arsenal football club lost 4-3 on penalties to Paris Saint Germain (PSG) in the European Champions final in Budapest two weeks ago the question no England fan dared ask ...
Only the murderer is to blame for the way Henry Nowak died
The arrest and handcuffing of murder victim Henry Nowak by police officers in Southampton in the UK last December and the political fallout after the conviction of the young British ...
Keeping the red flag flying
There are still a number of communist parties active in the world, among them those in China and Cyprus, which, in their different ways kept the red flag flying after ...