UK ELECTIONS
Both Labour and Tories lack ‘the vision thing’
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walked a few steps to a lectern outside his official residence at 10 Downing Street in London last Wednesday to announce that he was calling an ...
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A new world order really is in the making
The beginning of the end of Pax Americana
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on a state visit to China declared a new era in international relations. Well, he would say ...
Broken Britain: right-wing defection drama
Politics in the UK turned farcical last week when Natalie Elphicke, the Conservative member for Dover, defected to the Labour Party. In the jargon, she crossed the floor and sat ...
What potential arrest warrants against Israeli leaders mean
Israeli leaders are waiting with bated breath to find out if the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is going to issue arrest warrants against some of them for ...
Rwanda solution is probably lawful but not the answer
West’s foreign policy blunders to blame for migrant crisis
What to do about boat people? The problem is not as overwhelming in UK as it is in the Mediterranean ...
Iran, Israel and the right to self-defence
It is extraordinary that the West still buys into the idea that it was necessary and proportionate for the defence of Israel to destroy Gaza
The UN Charter which was ...
ICJ made the right call on Israel’s actions in Gaza
Court decided that there was a risk that the Israeli government harboured intention to destroy the Palestinians of Gaza as a group
Last week this column reported on an open ...
Lawyers warn UK prime minister of genocide
An open letter to the UK prime minister signed by 600 lawyers and retired judges, including three former Supreme Court judges, expressed grave concern that the UK government is not discharging ...
Julian Assange: villain or victim?
If I were the British interior minister, I would deport Assange to Australia and let them extradite him to the US if they can
By Alper Ali Riza
Julian Assange ...
Truth commission in Cyprus is crucial to reconciliation
The truth about the past should be uncovered and made known to people to avoid repetition
The human rights lawyer and former candidate for president of the Republic of Cyprus (...
Attack on Diane Abbott was definitely racist
British politics was dominated by racism and anti-semitism last week around the person and politics of Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the British parliament in 1987 ...
It is Trump against Biden again in US
There was a very amusing TV clip on BBC World Service last week in which its man in Beijing, Stephen McDonell asks delegates milling about at the Great Hall of ...
Is Palestinian self-determination on the horizon?
As Palestinians stand on the brink of extinction, their right to a state of their own is vital, League of Arab States tells ICJ
In January the International Court of ...
UK Parliament’s Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
There was pandemonium in the mother of parliaments at Westminster last Wednesday when the Scottish National Party (SNP) was prevented from having a vote on a call for a ceasefire ...
Nato needs the Russian bear of old
Nato joke aside, Trump’s isolationism nothing new in US
Donald Trump’s rant in which he encouraged Russia to attack Nato member states failing to comply with their treaty ...
Life’s a bitch sometimes
World leaders have this week shown their vulnerable side
Poor King Charles. He was admitted to the London Clinic for a routine procedure to treat a benign prostate condition and ...
In historic first, a Sinn Fein leader becomes Northern Irish first minister
History will be made in Ireland when the leader of Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, becomes first minister as leader of the largest party in the Northern ...
ICJ decides genocide by Israel in Gaza plausible
Israel was ordered to take all measures to prevent all genocidal acts, punish inciting genocide and allow humanitarian aid
In a landmark ruling on Friday, the International Court of Justice (...
How sovereign are the British bases in Cyprus?
There were protests outside the British Sovereign Base Area (SBA) at Akrotiri in Cyprus last Sunday about its use in military operations against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and its ...
The narcissism of small differences
Freud’s famous observation has always been evident in the Cyprus problem. The new UN envoy will have her work cut out
Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar was officially named last ...
Self-defence is not a defence to the crime of genocide
A busy couple of weeks for Israel’s legal minds
It was an eventful New Year weekend for the legal community in Israel. Her judiciary managed partly to restore her ...
Greece and Turkey parked the Cyprob, launch era of peace
Deaths in ongoing wars have resulted from the mistakes of a handful of politicians. When will they ever learn?
Alper Riza’s review of 2023
Reviews of the year are obviously ...
Impact of EU deal on asylum
Ironically it also helps the UK
According to EU Commission president, the EU’s new pact on migration and asylum will be formulated in a number of regulations and incorporated ...
Killing of civilians is a war crime
The aerial bombardment of civilians in densely populated cities began in earnest when Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany came to the assistance of their fellow fascists in Spain and bombed ...