Alper Ali Riza

There is no space for losers at the head of the Conservative party A week is a long time in politics but it was an eternity last week in the ...

And no, she could not have reprieved Evagoras Pallikarides in 1956 Queen Elizabeth may have passed away but some of us of a certain age will remain Elizabethans until “we too ...

It was Yeltsin that oversaw the break-up of the Soviet Union The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev is a good time to reset the West’s relationship with Russia. There is ...

Rail staff, dockers, rubbish collectors, postal workers and now even criminal barristers are on strike or will be going on strike in Brexit Britain. If higher pay is not forthcoming ...

And the courts can do something about it Greed is the unacceptable face of capitalism, and profiteering in times of pestilence and war a most loathsome and wicked kind of ...

A wind of change is blowing through the museums of Europe Just as the English think of Shakespeare as their very own, despite his universal appeal, the Greeks think the ...

At a massive cost to us all – except the oil companies “I urge people everywhere to send a clear message to the fossil fuel industry and their financiers: that this ...

Women’s football is exciting on its own merits In 1966 the Labour party’s Harold Wilson was British prime minister, the Americans were engaged in a war in Vietnam, the ...

House of Representatives is invoking the doctrine of necessity to undo a merged court that was itself created under the same doctrine The House of Representatives may reactivate Cyprus’ Supreme ...

Rishi Sunak should replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister By Alper Ali Riza It is often wrongly assumed that the political left is the natural home of liberated women, ...

There was nothing surprising about the decision to remove him; it was as ruthless as it was principled British premier Boris Johnson was overthrown last Thursday July 7, 2022 in a very ...

Unlike their leaders who love grandstanding on the world stage, most people are not prepared to pay any price in support of Ukraine Being the British prime minister has its ...

In all my years in the law, I have never come across such cock-and-bull reasoning as the one propounded by the majority in the US Supreme Court On Friday, the ...

The rule of law means individuals can do as they like unless there is a law that says they can’t, whereas government can do nothing unless there is a ...

There is no such animal as an ideal prime minister I was woken up by the earthquake on Friday morning and decided to stay up in case there was another ...

Three cheers for the monarch on her platinum jubilee but sustained boos for her first minister Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee this weekend is a good time to talk about ...

Will style or sincerity prove to be the vital thing when it is time to vote? It used to be said of the Conservative party in England that it was ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has breathed new life into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Collective self-defence under Nato’s umbrella protects Europe and North America from shared enemies in ...

Both the US and Russia have come unstuck on the legal differences between preventive and pre-emptive self-defence By Alper Ali Riza In his speech on Victory Day over Nazi Germany ...

In theory, Turkish Cypriots should be able to vote in the Republic’s presidential elections There is election fever in the air in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC). Candidates are ...

The former is no Neville Chamberlain and the latter is not Hitler Presidential elections in France are always interesting but when an election takes place in the middle of a ...

Costa Carras lived the good life of the ancients and the good Christian life of the late Metropolitan Anthony Costa Carras, tireless campaigner for the restoration of democracy in Greece 1967 ...

Some cynical clever dick at the Home Office has devised a scheme to deter asylum seekers By Alper Ali Riza Rwanda is perceived as the most refugee-repellant country in the ...

War crimes difficult to prove except that sometimes the facts speak for themselves According to the Nuremberg Tribunal crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes are committed by ...