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THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The series The Fall is set in a religiously and politically tinderbox-tense Belfast where Gillian Anderson, a senior metropolitan police officer sent ...

Europe has been left exposed to the vagaries of extreme weather Europe is going through a natural gas crisis, partly self-inflicted. The spectacular increase in gas, but also electricity, prices ...

I am reverting on the subject of my article of last Sunday because it is an issue of the highest national importance. As I have already explained in the past, “...

Much commotion but not much change as the most trusted politician in Germany steps down Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls ...

The announcement in an article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday by the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades that he may run for president of the Republic of Cyprus in 2023 ...

By George M. Georgiou and Les Manison The financial crisis of 2007–2009, referred to as the Great Recession, which afflicted most of the advanced capitalist economies and beyond, triggered a debate ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Considering its dominant position but also the departure of current chancellor Angela Merkel, a politician of strong international standing, the forthcoming elections in Germany ...

The likelihood of seeing meaningful capital statements published in Cyprus is slim On Monday, September 13, the statements of wealth of members of parliament elected in May were uploaded onto the ...

The new cabinet does not have the intellectual and political heavyweights that Britain needs to carve out her new role after Brexit. Government reshuffles in Britain are as fascinating as ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou My Irish cousin Thomas is nearly a century old and dementia has laid claim to his lively, enquiring brain. Archaeology was a ...

Eugenics was a 20th-century pseudo-science that purported to improve the human breed by weeding out the ‘least fit’, often by measures like compulsory sterilisation or, in the case of the ...

Are we finally going to make it big? Sadly no With ExxonMobil planning to drill an appraisal well before the end of the year and following political agreements in Egypt ...

I recently had the pleasure of attending an event sponsored by Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides and Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos in cooperation with the ...

What hope is there if cannot even bear to teach the history, culture and language of the other community Excising references to Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, from ...

By Gwynne Dyer ‘Changed the world forever’ is the most hackneyed phrase in journalism, and if you can get through this week (the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks) without hearing ...

The first and most important lesson from Akis Tzohatzopoulos’ life is that power corrupts By Christos P Panayiotides On August 27, Akis Tzohatzopoulos passed away, at the age of 82. He was ...

Afghanistan withdrawal has strengthened rather than ended the West’s delusional thinking that led to the misbegotten adventure in the first place By Gwynne Dyer A man is sitting in ...

In the music for the film Zorba the Greek, Mikis Theodorakis, who died last week aged 96, produced a masterpiece that married music and character to perfection. Zorba, “Damn it boss, ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I needed a break from faithfully following the (literal) blood and guts of The Good Doctor so I clicked onto a series set ...

Capital markets and the insurance sector are becoming increasingly reluctant to fund and insure fossil fuels The oil and gas sector is undergoing permanent change brought about by a number ...

But revoking Cyprus passports of Turkish Cypriots was not the answer In a recent article of mine, I made the following important points concerning the 1974 Turkish military intervention: The 1974 coup, ...

Neither RoC nor EU citizenship is in the gift of the government of the RoC to give or withhold The decision of President Anastasiades to weaponise Republic of Cyprus passports ...

Violent Islamist movements, as current events in Afghanistan demonstrate, have had some success in Muslim countries that have been invaded by the United States. But they have failed everywhere else, ...

Elif Shafak’s latest novel focuses on Cypriot identity Elif Shafak is Turkish novelist who writes in English and Turkish and lives in London where she is free to express ...