Methane and money
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou When we ladies are asked, ‘Does my bum look big in this?’ we call upon honed female skills...
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Amid the ‘helicopter money’ nobody is mentioning UBI
By Gwynne Dyer When you lock the people down (to save their lives), you inevitably close down a lot of the economy as well. And the...
Oil and gas companies on the retreat
By Charles Ellinas The combined effect of the massive decline in global oil and gas demand due to Covid-19 depressing the global economy, and the...
London under corona virus occupation
By Alper Ali Riza Every crisis is also an opportunity and although the world would have preferred to give whatever opportunity presents itself a miss,...
The economics of the coronavirus
WHAT we collectively call ‘the economy’ is a fairly complex system of interactive economic sub-systems in which a plethora of checks and balances ensures that...
The Bone Yard
By Richard Dickenson For this year it is more or less over for Cyprus, but in UK, and viruses permitting, it is still open season....
After the plague: there will be changes
They teach you in journalism school never to use the phrase “…X has changed the world forever”. Or at least they should. Covid-19 is certainly...
Coronavirus: At least we’ve decided lives are more important than the economy
By Gwynne Dyer Most of the countries in Asia, Europe and North America are now in lockdown to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus. This...
Church should have no role in March 25 celebrations
Far from leading the Greek revolution, the church opposed it By George Koumoullis IN a few days we will be marking the anniversary of the...
Coronavirus: The right to enter Cyprus without let or hindrance
By Alper Ali Riza The pros and cons of government policy on how to manage the current public health crisis are beyond the remit of...
Coronavirus: The perfect social storm
By Andonis Vassiliades The new coronavirus, Covid-19, has now spiralled out of control into a global pandemic. It is the greatest challenge to world order...
Resolving the illegal immigration problem is an absolute must
The concern I am expressing, today, stems from the recent, unprecedented incidents at the Evros Greek-Turkish border, in northern Greece. We have all watched these...
The evolving Irish
THE WAYS THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou March 17 was the feast of St. Patrick, the day we imagine everybody feels Irish enough, perhaps, to...
Playing Russian roulette with energy
Global oil and gas markets in turmoil as a result of price war and coronavirus By Charles Ellinas Monday’s collapse in global oil prices and the stock...
We need trust in leadership to avoid coronavirus panic
At last! The coronavirus has helped us to remind ourselves that life is sweet, that death is not welcome and that we would be well...
Is herd immunity the vaccine against coronavirus?
Never in the history of mankind was so much owed by so many to so few. I am not talking about Winston Churchill’s fulsome praise...
Eat your greens
By Richard Dickenson I hate Brussels. And I don’t mean that as a euphemism for the EU. No, I mean Brussels Sprouts. These are one...
The real dilemma tormenting Greek Cypriots
By Christos P. Panayiotides I SUSPECT that one of the main reasons that have hampered the resolution of the Cyprus problem is the dilemma...
Turkey’s zero problems with neighbours
Turkey cannot play dominoes with refugees on the frontier with Greece By Alper Ali Riza State encouragement of irregular movement of refugees by Turkey to...
Delving into the subconscious of a rejectionist president
By George Koumoullis IF there was one positive new item about the Cyprus problem, it was the opinion poll conducted by the universities of Kent...
