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How would we know if the United States is deliberately starving Ukraine of weapons in order to force it into a compromise peace settlement that leaves some Ukrainian territory – maybe ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The Irish haven’t always been, still aren’t, good at appreciating their talent. Strangers with clout seem to fare better in ...

By Gwynne Dyer ‘Cad.’ ‘Scoundrel.’ ‘Rotter.’ The words that members of the British public used to describe Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the aftermath of last weekend’s failed attempt ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the focus on the war in Ukraine, the public often overlooks other crises, especially in regions whose impact on global food supplies and ...

In a secular state the Church cannot relinquish its spiritual role for cheap politicking I have been led to the conclusion that there is no God by Archbishop Chrysostomos, with ...

There is no such animal as an ideal prime minister I was woken up by the earthquake on Friday morning and decided to stay up in case there was another ...

The government’s budget estimates for 2022 now look way out of line The cost of living crisis afflicting households and businesses in Cyprus and most other countries is deepening as ...

“Ninety per cent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens ...

The oil ban may not bring the pain to Russia that Brussels expects. The losers are the consumers The EU finally agreed on Thursday to impose a ban on seaborne ...

The governors of Cyprus have never promoted a comprehensive and viable plan of peaceful coexistence and mutual support of Greek and Turkish Cypriots I am convinced that in a well-structured, ...

Three cheers for the monarch on her platinum jubilee but sustained boos for her first minister Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee this weekend is a good time to talk about ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou There are few who can describe human remains with the eloquence of Irish Nobel poet Seamus Heaney. Grauballe Man is too long ...

‘What happens in Davos stays in Davos’, they say – or at least it should stay there, because some foolish things are said at the ‘World Economic Forum’, the annual conclave ...

Will style or sincerity prove to be the vital thing when it is time to vote? It used to be said of the Conservative party in England that it was ...

Time for presidential candidates to tell us more than what their dreams are The setting of the stage for the forthcoming presidential elections is slowly being completed. Fortunately, there is ...

“Well, my dear, we didn’t know where to look. The old codger was getting away with it again, fielding the questions like a man only nine-tenths of his age, ...

The EU’s €210bn plan is far-reaching but Cyprus is woefully behind In addition to its plan to stop using Russian oil, the EU has gone further, trying to grasp ...

Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus and Russia’s of Ukraine are not the same With regard to my article of last Sunday, while many people have contacted me to congratulate ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will almost certainly not be in power three years from now. The war he foolishly began in Ukraine has fatally undermined his political credibility among the ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has breathed new life into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Collective self-defence under Nato’s umbrella protects Europe and North America from shared enemies in ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I know religious people who aren’t spiritual and spiritual people who spurn organised religion. Many ancient myths and beliefs tell of ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The Turkish economy has repeatedly been described as totally directed by President Erdogan’s inner circle. Economic decisions which are obviously political, such as ...

The public response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine compares unfavourably with the rest of the EU I was lucky in that I was born in 1945 at the end of ...

The government and banks issue deceptive statements and statistics and the media blindly report them without question By Les Manison According to Reporters Without Borders, Cyprus ranks 69th on the “...