Ghislaine Maxwell should have taken the stand
By Alper Ali Riza
Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of procuring underage girls for her lover Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in prison awaiting trial for sexually abusing girls.
She ...
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Fibbing may yet bring down Boris Johnson
By Alper Ali Riza
The victory of Helen Morgan over the Conservative candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst in the North Shropshire mid-term election on Friday is a shot across the bows of ...
How your GP should never let you down
The four pillars of medical ethics should hold firm under a national health service
According to the Modern Hippocratic Oath there is art to medicine. It is the gift of ...
Thorn of Omicron from Alpha to Omega
From Alpha to Omega but leaving out Xi
Alpha was the UK variant, Beta the South African, Gamma the Brazilian, and Delta the Indian. The Chinese virus is outside the ...
The right to bear arms part of self defence in US
A look at the Kyle Rittenhouse trial
In some states in the US when you leave home you check you have not forgotten your house keys, your wallet, your mobile, ...
Boris Johnson guilty of corruption of power
By Alper Ali Riza
Corruption, what corruption? Britain is not a corrupt country was Boris Johnson’s reply to criticism that the government manipulated its huge parliamentary majority to save ...
EU law determines refugee protection in Cyprus
When the Republic of Cyprus joined the EU in 2004 it surrendered to the EU her sovereign right to control its borders in refugee claims. A surrender of so much sovereignty ...
Saving our fragile planet requires the finest levels of statecraft
About 65 million years ago, before God created mankind, planet Earth was dominated by dinosaurs. Children love them as toys, but it is interesting in these climate change times to notice ...
Pancyprian children have Cypriot nationality at birth
There are rights and obligations, and you can’t invoke rights but eschew obligations
If called upon to rule on the matter, no European institution would buy the argument that ...
Theklia and Christos are natural-born Cypriot citizens
The plight of Theklia and Christos two mixed heritage children refused Cypriot ID cards is too close to home and personally too close to the bone to ignore.
It was ...
Poland is wrong to move goal posts
The primacy of the EU’s legal system over the laws and constitutions of member states is necessary for the union to exist
By Alper Ali Riza
The spat between ...
UK cheating foreigners
Dominic Cummings, the architect of Brexit, claimed on Twitter last week that cheating foreigners was the core part of his job as special adviser to the British prime minister during ...
A storm in a coffee cup
I don’t care what people call their national coffee so long as it tastes like Turkish coffee
Apologies to Patroclos for encroaching on coffeeshop territory. I’ve been meaning ...
In defence of the legal profession
By Alper Ali Riza
A friend emailed last week after reading my column about the candidature of the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades for president to remind me of the ...
A candidate named Achilleas: a breath of fresh air
The announcement in an article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday by the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades that he may run for president of the Republic of Cyprus in 2023 ...
Boris Johnson’s Global Britain on the case
The new cabinet does not have the intellectual and political heavyweights that Britain needs to carve out her new role after Brexit.
Government reshuffles in Britain are as fascinating as ...
One more nail in the coffin of a bicommunal Cyprus
What hope is there if cannot even bear to teach the history, culture and language of the other community
Excising references to Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, from ...
Theodorakis: friends and fellow travellers
In the music for the film Zorba the Greek, Mikis Theodorakis, who died last week aged 96, produced a masterpiece that married music and character to perfection.
Zorba, “Damn it boss, ...
Weaponising Cyprus passports may infringe EU law
Neither RoC nor EU citizenship is in the gift of the government of the RoC to give or withhold
The decision of President Anastasiades to weaponise Republic of Cyprus passports ...
Forbidden love and fig trees in Cyprus
Elif Shafak’s latest novel focuses on Cypriot identity
Elif Shafak is Turkish novelist who writes in English and Turkish and lives in London where she is free to express ...
Even Adam and Eve were awarded the right to be heard
By overturning a sham marriage decision this week, the Supreme Court proved itself independent of the executive in an area of law where the latter often rides roughshod over individual ...
Why patience remains key to a federal solution
The healing process takes time, patience and pastures new
As we are just into the silly season, when I allow myself to comment on comments, I shall answer Nazaret Shamilian’...
Ottoman power games in northern Cyprus
The importance of Cyprus to the Turks
President Erdogan has been and gone. His visit was done to show the importance of Cyprus to the Turks, but that does not ...
Byzantine complexities that led to the coup
Sirens are sounded in the Republic of Cyprus every year at the exact time President Makarios was overthrown on July 15, 1974. Makarios was receiving some Greek Egyptian children at the presidential ...