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California’s fall from grace has been steep and swift, and now even the insurance companies are pulling out. The two biggest American home insurance companies, State Farm and Allstate, ...

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 ...

By Les Manison Newly elected President Nikos Christodoulides promised in his campaign that his government would be one of “broad social acceptance”. For the economy this should mean a situation ...

Artificial General Intelligence would perceive human beings in roughly the same way as we see plants. By Gwynne Dyer I’m looking at a headline this morning that screams ‘AI ...

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 ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE In mid-June readers of James Joyce’s Ulysses who know his characters Molly and Leopold Bloom, will know what ‘Bloomsday’ is all about. Ulysses is an ...

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 ...

By Gwynne Dyer I was one of five children – not seen as a particularly big family in Newfoundland at the time – and there was one year when we allegedly beat ...

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 ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Weight is a constant in the lives of people who don’t conform to what experts and beauty addicts maintain is the correct number of kilos. ...

There is no justice. Bashar al-Assad, the murderous Syrian dictator whose membership even the Arab League suspended twelve years ago, is off to Riyadh this week to celebrate his re-admission ...

Realisation of the EuroAsia Interconnector (EAI) has now entered the home-straight. The project is close to achieving several important milestones. The EAI constitutes a critical infrastructure for the European Commission, ...

Decent wages for most workers have fallen victim to crony capitalism In a Cyprus Mail opinion piece of April 30, 2023 it was argued that the economic system of Cyprus characterised by ...

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 ...

Turkey’s elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in power for two decades, and he should ...

Here’s how to sound wise when writing a story about mass killings and gun control. Last week saw two such massacres in Serbia (eight deaths and nine deaths respectively) ...

By Christos Panayiotides A lot of friends have asked me questions about the new Greek voting system, which they are struggling to understand. Here is my response in a nutshell, ...

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 ...

There is a fever raging in the ocean. Last month it was worst off the eastern coast of North America, where the sea surface temperature was as much as 13.8 degrees ...

There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine democracy has usually been relatively restrained. Maybe that is why it ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE For Cyprus, Ireland and Palestine, Easter and April carry ongoing significance, their history still a living thing because of unresolved political issues. Cypriots and Christian Palestinians ...

Turkey started natural gas production from its own massive Black Sea gasfield Sakarya on 20 April, less than three years after discovery. Sakarya is estimated to hold 710 billion cubic metres (bcm) ...

By Katerina Nicolaou I got him a stainless-steel egg poacher pan, Mrs Maria told me. You turn the boiling water down to a simmer, add eggs to the cups, steam ...

Failure of government to prosecute blatant cases of corruption and nepotism most striking example of crony capitalism on the island By Les Manison Capitalism, also called a free market economy, ...