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Counting the cost of Brexit

March 25th, 20191352 By Andonis Vassiliades The UK is in a political and socio-economic crisis of its own making In the aftermath of speaker of the British parliament John...

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The next central bank governor should be a foreigner

March 24th, 20191637 By George Koumoullis WHEN I was doing my GCE A level in economics to get a place at university in the UK, many decades ago, I was reading the book Economics...

Opinion

A general election is the obvious way out for Britain

March 24th, 20192447 By Alper Ali Riza THE penny has finally dropped in the EU that you cannot disrespect the constitutional arrangements of member states and get away with it...

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The cardinal error committed by the Greek Cypriots

March 23rd, 20195767 LAST Monday, I attended the presentation of the newly published book written by Ioannis N. Gregoriades, under the title “Sisyphus going East”. The...

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World’s Leading Demagogue

March 23rd, 20191546 YOU can keep your Orban, your Netanyahu, your pathetic Boris Johnson. As for Donald Trump, he’s really an icon of democracy, just slightly shop-soiled. The...

Opinion

Brexit backstop: arrogance is as breath-taking as the ignorance

March 17th, 20192446 By Gwynne Dyer The other Europeans are not laughing at the English for the most part. They are looking at them with pity and scorn. But also with a great...

Opinion

The misinformation of cowardly online commentators

March 17th, 20191746 Half-truths, cherry-picking and mud-throwing By Christos P Panayiotides I recently found myself at the receiving end of a mud-smearing campaign from a...

Opinion

Britain’s attorney-general’s opinion is unsound

March 17th, 20191805 By Alper Ali Riza I may not have my voice but I understand the voice of England, Theresa May told the House of Commons after quite literally losing her...

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Xinjiang – the silence of the Muslims

March 14th, 20191610 Muslim governments were not silent when Burma murdered thousands of Rohingya, its Muslim minority, and expelled 700,000 of them across the border into...

Opinion

Femininity, feminism and my buffoon

March 12th, 20191101 THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The dictionary describes the word femininity as ‘having the quality of being feminine’. Feminism it...

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The long road to a viable federation

March 10th, 20193090 By George Koumoullis THE REASONS so many Cypriots, including distinguished scientists, reject bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF), even if this means the...

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Devolution is more suitable for Cyprus than federation

March 10th, 20194720 By Alper Ali Riza The pictures of HM Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom with President Nicos Anastasiades of the Republic of Cyprus last week reminded...

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Spare the scapegoat in the Co-op affair

March 10th, 20191771 By Christos Panayiotides Last Wednesday, at 12 midday, the report into the collapse of the co-operative credit sector was released. Given that the report...

Opinion

How Pakistan’s army keeps its conflict with India alive

March 3rd, 20192282 After the terrorist attack on Indian troops in Kashmir two weeks ago that killed 40 Indian soldiers, but before Tuesday’s retaliatory air strikes across the...

Opinion

The impossibility of a decentralised federation

March 3rd, 20192690 A regular reader wrote to me about my last article (which supported the view that the decentralised federation is a silly idea that should be abandoned by the...

Opinion

Chagos Islands case shows SBA in Cyprus lawful

March 3rd, 20193418 Mauritius is a beautiful island state in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is a member of the UN and the British Commonwealth with a population slightly...

Opinion

New meaning to geriatrix

February 27th, 20191125 THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Has something small ever happened to you that made you cringe? Years back I was thrown head first from my...

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Trump the promise-keeper

February 24th, 20192324 By Gwynne Dyer Donald Trump is a man of his word, and he promised his ‘base’ to build a wall on the US border with Mexico to stop an “invasion of...

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An apparently logical conclusion is illogical

February 24th, 20193170 By Christos P Panayiotides Please follow my reasoning. The argument of the President of the Republic in favour of a ‘decentralised’ federation is...

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Home Secretary more Catholic than the Pope

February 24th, 20192804 By Alper Ali Riza IT IS universally accepted that everyone has the right to a nationality; that statelessness should be avoided; and that no one should be...

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