Who decides who is a Cypriot?
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 ...
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Sweden and Denmark should ban burning of Quran
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 ...
Do Israeli judges need reasonableness in their toolkit?
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 ...
In praise of summertime
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 ...
The right to privacy is sacred
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 ...
Top courts in EU and Britain on Refugee Rights
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 ...
Wagner Group’s Ride of the Valkyries a damp squib
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 ...
Active involvement of the EU in Cyprob talks is essential
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
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Trump and Johnson are birds of a feather
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 ...
Ukraine dam breach a possible war crime
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 ...
Covid judge gets to decide on Boris WhatsApps
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 ...
Did the UK’s Braverman behave improperly?
The fuss in the British press over the interior minister was a storm in a teacup
By Alper Ali Riza
As every observer of corruption in public life knows, it ...
In defence of the right to die
The idea that assisting in the death of the terminally ill is tantamount to murder is morally repugnant
Crime and punishment is about prohibited intentional acts that deserve to be ...
After 20 years, is Turkey finally tired of its angry father figure?
Today’s elections are a chance for mild-mannered, modest Kemal Kilicdaroglu to take over
There is earthquake diplomacy and there is earthquake democracy. Earthquake diplomacy is when diplomatic relations between ...
Coronation a symbolic ritual of a king that never dies
The coronation of King Charles III on May 6, 2023 was a public celebration of his succession to the throne but it also symbolised the demise of the crown to the next ...
Cyprus: an island of many hubs
Cyprus is condemned by history and geopolitics to be a hub of one kind or another. It is a tightrope role that Cypriots negotiate pragmatically and with gusto. Nice to ...
The super-rich grandchildren of the Russian revolution
Russians love to litigate in England and the legal profession in London loves Russian litigation as it is extremely lucrative
By Alper Ali Riza
After the Soviet Union collapsed an ...
The Cyprus referendum: an example of how not to ask a question
In Northern Ireland with a problem similar to the Cyprob, the referendum question on the Good Friday Agreement was much simpler
Last week President Nikos Christodoulides told a conference in ...
In search of common ground in Cyprus
Last week I was taken to task in the comments section for suggesting a referendum as a ladder for all parties to climb down in the political crisis in Israel ...
Let the people decide on Israel judges
Netanyahu’s proposals would change the way Supreme Court judges are appointed in favour of political control
Some of the best judges in the UK and elsewhere are Jewish. Yet ...
Boris Johnson too toxic to return to high office
He has apologised for misleading Parliament but claims that he did not do so intentionally or recklessly
Representative democracy requires a free press and a well-honed Parliament. A free press ...
Russia in danger of becoming laughing stock
Time was when Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, travelled to European capitals as and when he pleased and was received there as a serious and rational diplomat and, like ...
Gary Lineker was right on refugees
There is no easy answer to the irregular arrival of refugees on the shores of Europe along the Mediterranean Sea and those of Britain in the Channel, and the UK ...
The Windsor Framework: EU’s gift to Northern Ireland
Ireland and Cyprus have many things in common except one. Whereas membership of the EU helped rather than hindered the peace process in Northern Ireland, the opposite happened in Cyprus.
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