Alper Ali Riza

Decisions were made foolishly, chaotically and with a lot of expletives There is a judge-led inquiry going on in the UK about the central government’s response to the Covid 19 ...

The UN Charter preserves self-defence as an inherent right of states in the event of armed attack. As its name suggests, self-defence is more of a shield than a sword ...

And after his comments on the Israel-Gaza crisis this week, Antonio Guterres is no different Israel called for the resignation of the UN Secretary-General (UNSG), António Guterres, last Tuesday, ...

Israel’s aim is to give vent to rage, revenge and self-defence It has been raining bombs on Gaza for the last two weeks. Bombs dropped by the Israel Defence ...

But it would never work because the RoC would have to relinquish sovereignty over areas not under its effective control, which is just not going to happen – not now, not ...

The appointment of Sue Carr last week as the first Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales is another first for the Conservative party. Chief Justice Carr was appointed by ...

In a speech in the US last week, UK interior minister Suella Braverman floated the idea that the definition of refugee under 1951 Refugee Convention needed to be tightened to stop ...

In England this happened in 1999 and in Cyprus this month so it was about time The administration of civil justice in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) has a brand new ...

Rugby and cricket never captured the imagination of Cypriots. Cyprus was under British control for 60 years last century and while the beautiful game of football became popular after it was ...

European leaders are torn between the human rights of refugees and the fear of local people of being swamped by refugees The racist attacks on refugees in Limassol and Paphos ...

Sometimes a kiss is not just a kiss By Alper Ali Riza When the history of women’s football comes to be written it will be Spain’s 1-0 World ...

The 14th Amendment could be used without a criminal conviction for insurrection After last week’s column about world leaders facing criminal charges there have been developments in the Donald ...

The much-indicted septuagenarian former US president Donald Trump is running for president against the incumbent octogenarian Joe Biden in the 2024 race to the White House proving there is still life ...

The Cyprus Supreme Court: The applicants were born in Cyprus on either side of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus of July 20, 1974 and are descended from parents who are of mixed ...

Burning the holy Quran or any other holy book is a violent expression of hatred of believers by setting fire to the symbol of their faith and not a lawful ...

Courts in Israel have developed it beyond the confines of absurdity The political turmoil in Israel came to a climax last week when its parliament, the Knesset, passed a controversial ...

Those songs of summer say it best These days the heat of the summer months is too much for anyone to venture out while the Sun beats down at temperatures ...

But in the UK it has been a long road to get there, and could only help Huw Edwards as far as his conscience allowed Huw Edwards was the unnamed ...

It was obvious refugees could not be deported to Rwanda and that dangerous refugee criminals are eminently deportable but not an elected MEP Refugee decisions from the top courts in ...

The very Russian coup attempt that fizzled out halfway on the road to Moscow The Wagner Group that mounted a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin last week gets its ...

But the Turkish side needs to be persuaded that although the RoC and Greece are EU members and Turkey and the ‘TRNC’ are outsiders, the EU is not institutionally biased ...

They are a small price to pay for incorruptible democracy that allows them to prosper Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are rare birds. They are big beasts politically, but flawed ...

If it is a war crime, it has strong echoes of Britain’s bombing of Rhur valley in WWII For unreconstructed Anglophiles like myself Dambusters was a heroic British operation ...

Whenever something goes seriously wrong in democracies, governments appoint judicial inquiries to investigate and report. They are often an expedient smokescreen geared to fend off blame and diffuse criticism. Politicians ...