Giving the world economy a dose of bleach
Recently I have been writing about financial matters and the risks associated with rising interest rates in the US. For sure, the phenomenon is not limited to the United States. ...
Cyprus’ ‘garrison state’ has become a governance crisis
Decades of emergency governance, patronage and institutional barriers have weakened civic participation and left Cyprus facing a deepening crisis of political legitimacy.
The collapse of civic participation and institutional authority ...
The freedom of Cyprus runs through the mountains of Kurdistan?
Dr Thomas James Phillips
Writing in the 19th century literary feuilleton Vremya (Time), the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky chastised the intelligentsia of his day for its revolutionary impatience.
Having been ...
Earl Spencer’s claims about Charles do not add up
His book raises questions about chronology, memory and motive
Earl Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister was published last Tuesday after it was trailed in an interview he gave ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Such ingratitude to Diko and the Papadopoulos clan
I COULD not believe the air of superiority and disdain with which Finance Minister Makis Keravnos responded to the suggestion by poor Ethnarch Junior, his party boss, that he resign ...
Our View: Candidates already eyeing the presidency
Although there are still 16 months to go before the presidential election, it has already started dominating the news.
One news website, that openly supports President Christodoulides has had a story ...
Cyprus has the climate for abundance. So where is the public fruit?
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
The summer continued to be a parade of hidden defects within my home. A man with a detective device had to be summoned to trace the invisible ...
Cyprus’ competitive electricity market one year on
Cyprus’ competitive electricity market completes its first year of operation on October 1. Technically, it is functioning. Electricity is traded through day-ahead, intraday, forward and balancing arrangements broadly aligned with EU’...
Our View: Futile patient system needs to change
There are currently 170 personal doctors in Gesy with 2,500 registered patients each. In other words, 170 personal doctors are looking after a total of 425,000 patients. Is it possible for a single doctor ...
Trump’s diplomatic push exposes limits of US power
From his high-profile address to the UN General Assembly to his high-stakes White House summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump this week was looking to reassert ...
Our View: Old rhetoric offers no way forward
For senior citizens, who have followed politics over the years, President Nikos Christodoulides’ speech at the UN General Assembly was a trip down memory lane. It was the type of ...
Our View: Tax cuts are no cure for inflation
High prices, understandably, have been the main public issue in the last eight months. People are not happy when their standard of living is steadily falling because their disposable income ...
Our View: Diko has a point. Maybe the finance minister should resign
Finance Minister Makis Keravnos may have laughed at the suggestion by the Diko leader that he should resign over his oft-expressed opposition to the Great Sea Interconnector project but Nicolas ...
Geopolitics of the Mediterranean in the aftermath of Hormuz
The return of acute geopolitical risk to global energy markets is changing the way energy security is understood. The central question is no longer simply how to deliver energy as ...
Our View: Is govt being outwitted by NIMBYs?
Choosing a site for the new central prison is proving rather challenging for the government, which has made the matter more difficult by the slapdash decisions it has taken.
The ...
The tragic geography of frontline alignment: restraint, denial, and Cypriot security
In an anarchic international system devoid of overarching authority to guarantee collective security, small states situated along the maritime perimeter of a regional power inhabit an inherently perilous universe. Because ...
Marlon Brando was right
In May 1968, weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Marlon Brando appeared on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Brando – arguably the most influential dramatic actor ...
The ‘Limassolisation’ of everything: setting a dangerous precedent
By George Neocleous
For the past 15 years, the soundtrack of Limassol has been characterised by the rumbling of high-end luxury cars, foreign accents negotiating multi-million-euro property deals and the low, ...
Space war and other completely unnecessary distractions
When Troy Meink, the chief of the US Space Force, announces for no obvious reason that the United States “now has on-orbit space-control weapons”, people naturally assume that something is ...
World is rethinking strength of US dollar
For decades, international markets treated US government bonds as a zero-risk asset and safe haven during times of crisis. However, the escalating US national debt is causing concern, broadly affecting ...
Market economies are failing society
Democratised market systems in most Western countries, including the diverse economies of the United States and Cyprus, are failing society in that wealth has become increasingly concentrated among the very ...
‘I cannot destroy humanity,’ AI tells the Cyprus Mail
There has been much doomsday talk recently following a claim by AI experts that unless its progress is curtailed there is a 10 per cent possibility it could destroy humanity in ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The Cyprob world tour begins!
ALL KYPROULLA is laughing and mocking the former Disy big-wig and deputy Nikos Tornaritis for accepting the most ludicrous post ever thought up by a Prez to reward one of ...
Our View: Budget optimism requires a dose of caution
Finance Minister Makis Keravnos presented the 2027 state budget to the council of ministers on Wednesday. Considering this is the state budget with which President Nikos Christodoulides will seek re-election, it ...
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