How lawful is the Iran war?
No one believes that Iran was planning to attack the US and Israel imminently on Saturday a week ago, justifying the pre-emptive attack on Iran while negotiations were in progress ...
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US-Israel attack on Iran was inevitable
As the US and Israel attack Iran and many of its people are conflicted about what should happen to their government, no patriotic Iranian welcomes the bombing of their country ...
Andrew’s very public arrest, but was it legal?
Technically he should have been asked to attend a police station as is normal police procedure in white-collar criminal cases
Prince Andrew was arrested on his 66th birthday last Thursday ...
UK’s Labour not in habit of dumping sitting prime ministers
The last time a Labour prime minister came under pressure to resign like Keir Starmer did last week, was when Harold Wilson faced a backbench revolt over trade union reform ...
Mandelson now faces the prospect of many years in prison
Peter Mandelson is likely to be charged with offences of misconduct in public office (MiPO) for leaking highly sensitive market information he received as a UK cabinet minister in the ...
Political equality in Cyprus is a more modest version of the EU’s
The purpose of political equality in any Cyprus talks is to strike a fair balance between two rival but unequal communities condemned by history and geography to share a small ...
Fight for Greenland papers over a very murky past
To understand the geopolitical conundrum over Greenland you need a globe of planet Earth and a summary of the judgement of the Permanent Court of International Justice in Denmark v ...
Iran’s long history of outside interference
Iran is in the news again. This time because the bazaar joined protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran and many protesters have been reported killed and seriously injured.
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Did the US breach international law? Well, It’s complicated
A hierarchy of laws in the US can leave treaties up to interpretation
Does international law matter to the US? That is the question in the time of Trump’s ...
What is there in Nazism for teenagers to like?
Although the recent teenage glorification of Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology at a school in Larnaca in Cyprus is nothing new among teenagers, or confined to Cyprus, the attraction of ...
2026 offers glimmer of hope for Cyprus, elsewhere not so much
A review of the year and predicting the shape of things to come in 2026 and beyond must begin with events at home. The Cyprus Mail is of course a Cypriot ...
BBC lawsuit could sink US special relationship
Defamation is a niche branch of the law for the rich and powerful but the $5 billion claim by President Trump against the BBC for defaming him is off the scale. ...
Trump’s new strategy: how scared should we be?
President Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025 is a brief policy statement about a hugely controversial shift in US foreign policy away from the EU and Nato in favour of sovereign ...
What a trial without jury in England means
The UK justice minister, David Lammy, told parliament last Tuesday that the government is minded to remove the right to jury trial for all offences for which the sentence was ...
Poland in the spotlight over same-sex unions
The country does not recognise same-sex marriages or civil unions
Poland is a devoutly Catholic country and its laws on same sex marriage are less tolerant of homosexuality than other ...
UK’s Labour gets tough on refugees
The UK government’s new interior minister Shabana Mahmood was asked rhetorically whether she would be applying to join the anti-immigration populist party Reform UK as a backhanded compliment after ...
The BBC and an ironic twist to its impartial legacy
President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Airforce One on Friday that he will sue the BBC for between $1 and $5 billion for cheating and putting words in his mouth in a ...
EU presidency to benefit all Cypriots
Cyprus’ stint at the helm of the rotating presidency a lesson in political equality
“The Cypriots know they cannot become a world power; but they have succeeded in becoming a ...
Andrew Windsor: some lies were implausible, others demonstrably false
Last Thursday Britain’s King Charles III initiated the process by which he will deprive his brother of all titles including that of prince. Henceforth he will be known as ...
What do the Greek Cypriots do now?
Federalism is back on the agenda after the election of Tufan Erhurman as “TRNC president” by a landslide comparable to the resounding approval Turkish Cypriots gave the UN-EU sponsored bicommunal ...
UK’s government had no choice but to drop China-spying case
Abandoning a criminal prosecution is as controversial in England as it has been in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) where there is a proposal to transfer the prosecutorial function of ...
Katie Clerides: a true believer in a bizonal, bicommunal federation
Katie Clerides who died last week was a rare bird. Her father was the Greek Cypriot president of the Republic of Cyprus 1993-2003 and her mother was from India which ...
Might be time for permanent residents to apply for citizenship
If elected to government Reform UK said it would deprive millions of foreign nationals living in UK of indefinite leave to remain (ILR) which is the right of permanent settlement ...
Trump’s Nobel obsession and the UN he scorns
Even allowing for his hyperbolic style, US President Donald Trump is not the peacemaker he boasted in his UN General Assembly speech last week nor is the UN as ineffective ...