UK Supreme Court decides Scotland not an oppressed colony
Rules that Scots do not have the right to self determination
On November 22, 2022 the UK Supreme Court ruled that the people of Scotland did not have the right to self-determination ...
Gifts of Christmas past: buy secondhand to give your loved ones the gift of nostalgia and imagination
By Omar Khaled Abdelrahman,
Christmas is a period for celebrating our relationships with family and friends – a time filled with nostalgia and sentimentality. Of course for many people it’s ...
Our View: Non-inclusive TV debates not a good show of our democracy
The second presidential debate broadcast simultaneously by the four private television channels was held on Thursday night. Like the first one, the guests were the three leading candidates, who had ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Utter nonsense gaining ground with swathes of population
OUR DEPUTIES go on a three-month holiday having attended the last session of the House on Friday. The legislature will reconvene after the end of the presidential elections, giving deputies ...
Our View: Islands’ two main banks finally have clean bill of health
Greece’s Eurobank has doubled its shareholding in Hellenic Bank it was announced on Thursday. It acquired 12.6 per cent of Hellenic in 2021 adding another 13.5 per cent of the shares this ...
Our View: Can’t protesting lawyers find a better way to make their case?
The public protest has for years been a popular alternative to political discourse. If an interest group thinks its arguments are not being heard or have failed to convince the ...
Disenchanted: Disney attempts to break stereotypes of motherhood only to reinforce them
By Vanessa Marr
Mothers in fairy tales have a way of being absent, typically through untimely deaths (think Cinderella, Snow White or Beauty and the Beast) or thanks to storylines ...
Our View: Local government reform is not worthy of the praise heaped upon it
EVERYONE who spoke at the AGM of the Union of Municipalities on Tuesday praised the reform of local government that was voted through last April by the legislature after years ...
Joni, Cyprus and the ‘ra’
THE WAY THINGS ARE
Back in the Sixties, the immaculate voice of singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell drew fans to her in droves. Her songs were smart, beautiful and relevant. Recently, she ...
Obituary: ‘End of an era’, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies at 96
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, Chinese state ...
Our View: Christodoulides’ narrative knocked by ‘Diko memo’
It is very difficult to understand why Diko took such offence over the publication of a memo it had supposedly drafted in which it set the conditions for backing the ...
Our View: Swinging from a brutal regime to a utopia in prisons has not worked
The statement by the attorney-general on the state of the Nicosia central prisons was quite shocking given that the goings on at the facility have always elicited a tight-lipped response ...
Innova Challenge: students create product for smart cities
Marinos Papageorgiou’s November 16th article “Environmental education: A necessary tool” is spot-on. If we do not engage and educate the next generation about environmental challenges and give them tools ...
Hyper-nationalism and the problem with Turkey
By Dimitri Gonis
Hyper-nationalism is predicated on the notion of ‘specialness’. At its core lies an intrinsic hostility towards anything and anyone that challenges the narrative of racial purity and ...
When in Rome do as the Romans do
Equality means that when in Qatar we do as the Qataris do
This World Cup 2022 is full of surprises not the least of them the choice of Qatar as the ...
Our View: Christodoulides is not the right candidate to deliver a Cyprus solution
In a speech he made on Thursday, independent presidential candidate, Marios Eliades raised an important issue about the forthcoming elections that most candidates have been turning a blind eye to. ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: And in the 11th year he rested
FOLLOWING the activities of Prez Nik in the last few weeks, you could easily have been fooled into thinking that he was campaigning for re-election. He is out and about ...
The solution of the Cyprus problem is in our hands
The fact remains that the majority of Greek Cypriots continue to be in favour of reunification
A recent nationwide telephone poll by CMRC, on a sample of 1,247 respondents, showed that 53 ...
Why we feel like Christmas comes around more quickly each year
By Ruth Ogden
Think back to your childhood. December was the longest of months. It might have been filled with rehearsing school nativity performances, writing up your wishlist and savouring ...
Are we heading towards a long-term energy crisis?
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
During the period 2010-2020, the prices of conventional forms of energy (coal, oil, natural gas) remained at historically low levels, mainly reflecting the markets’ ...
Our View: Children should not shoulder adult responsibilities
It was International Children’s Rights Day last Sunday and the child commissioner wasted no time in telling us that the children are very angry with adults because the world ...
Our View: Black Friday, the American sales gimmick that just keeps on giving
Black Friday is a new arrival to Cyprus, where we did not know the meaning of the term until a few years ago. It is an American sales gimmick, held ...
Our View: Tourism recovered this year but seasonality still a problem
Cyprus’ tourism, to its credit, has recovered at a faster rate than was expected following the complete shutdown of 2020 because of the pandemic restrictions.
According to figures presented at the ...
Why the John Lewis Christmas advert makes me angry
By Karen Lury
The 2022 John Lewis Christmas advert is much like a Christmas present from a relative who doesn’t know you well. Well-meaning, beautifully wrapped, but you kind of ...