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By Gwynne Dyer I generally leave the psychohistory to Hari Seldon, but just this once I feel sufficiently motivated to venture into the field. The immediate spur for this departure ...

By Gwynne Dyer Military coups are back in fashion in Africa. There have been over 200 attempted coups in the continent since 1960, about half of them successful, but in the past ...

The former foreign minister’s hardline policies on Cyprus issue were a failure. He should not stand for president By Christos Panayiotides In the summer of 1962, I had the great ...

By Patricia Jordan February already and what lot of rain we have had since the start of the year! It’s all good for the dams, aquifers and wells, but ...

The current project has a long, and likely tortuous, way to go This is further to my article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday. Since then, the debate over the ...

From being a gang-rape victim, the complainant was interviewed as a suspect By Alper Ali Riza By a majority of two to one the Supreme Court of Cyprus quashed the ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannides Apparently Boris Johnson, British PM of Turkish ancestry, can rattle off chunks of the Iliad – in Greek. I don’t memorise, I ...

Following a highly controversial tendering process, the island’s €290million LNG project was handed in December 2019 to a consortium led by China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Company (CPPE), a pipeline construction ...

Trial by social media and news websites has become the disturbing norm By Christos Panayiotides The biological urge to reproduce is the mechanism that nature has provided to secure the ...

The effects of the Covid pandemic have exposed and exacerbated income inequalities in Cyprus including large remuneration disparities between employees in the higher-paid public sector and those in the private ...

Those who cannot understand Russia’s security fears over Nato’s expansion into East Europe are either not fair minded or unhistorical By Alper Ali Riza Nato has absorbed every ...

By Richard Dickenson I suppose it was always inevitable but somehow it never seemed likely really to happen. For this is farewell. Time has, at last caught up. My words ...

Nothing would become Johnson more than having to resign over too many parties. Boris Johnson was caught bang to rights. While still recuperating from fever and low oxygenation brought on ...

The world has moved on and it’s time we did too The news last Monday that the US State Department finally abandoned the EastMed gas pipeline should not have ...

At the stroke of midnight last Friday, half of Germany’s remaining nuclear power stations closed down. The remaining three plants (of an original 17) will shut down on December 31 of ...

As the world shifts irrevocably and inexorably towards clean energy and net-zero emissions, the oil and gas industry is finding itself under siege on multiple fronts By Dr Charles Ellinas ...

Our leaders embraced illogical behaviour from the beginning and have never deviated from that path By Christos Panayiotides The word “surrealism” comes from the French words “sur” (on, above) and “...

By Alper Ali Riza Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of procuring underage girls for her lover Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in prison awaiting trial for sexually abusing girls. She ...

As a dreadful year draws to an end and the Omicron variant turns out to be less lethal than its predecessors, premature outbreaks of cheerfulness have been spotted in many ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Maari spent some not unpleasant years at boarding school. Her parents, serving the Crown in far flung places, wanted her to have ...

The geopolitical question of the moment is: how important is it to humour Russian leader Vladimir Putin? The answer is: not very. Throw him a fish or two, because he’...

ExxonMobil considers the East Med a promising hydrocarbon basin By Charles Ellinas With Covid-19 resurging, Cyprus’ EEZ is back in the limelight. ExxonMobil is about to start drilling in block 10, ...

By Gwynne Dyer The “new normal”, said International Energy Agency spokesperson Heymi Bahar last May, may be a far faster expansion of renewable energy than expected, driven mainly by market ...

By Christos P. Panayiotides We have arrived, yet again, at Christmas, which we will celebrate next Saturday. At Christmas, we recall the innocence of the newborn baby, we launch a ...