Opinion

The United Nations climate change conference, known as COP30, recently held in Brazil, was a landmark one. It was the tenth since the Paris Conference, in which a binding agreement ...

The demonstrations began again in Iran last week, only two years after the ‘Woman! Life! Freedom!’ movement convulsed the country for months. However, the current protests are potentially much broader ...

As Cyprus cautiously revisits the idea of a bicommunal, bizonal federation – which I often describe as BBF 2.0 – it might be tempting to rely on the familiar pillars of security and ...

It’s that time of the year again and also probably good news that Cyprus does not seem to feature in the Doomsday predictions for 2026. That doesn’t mean that ...

Although the recent teenage glorification of Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology at a school in Larnaca in Cyprus is nothing new among teenagers, or confined to Cyprus, the attraction of ...

The economy was in rude good health in 2025 and all forecasts suggest that we will enjoy more of the same this year, all other things being equal. The general consensus ...

The UN had not, as of Friday at least, weighed on the December 30 buffer-zone incident near Mammari where a Greek Cypriot father and son were cultivating their land. This has ...

Today the Cyprus Republic takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, with which the 18-month Poland-Denmark-Cyprus Trio presidency will be concluded. This is the second time ...

Cyprus seems to have escaped any major tragedy on the roads this holiday season thankfully but we’re not out of the woods yet. If today, tonight and tomorrow pass ...

The separation of Church and state is a fundamental pillar of liberal democracy and efforts have been made for many decades now to get organised Churches out of politics. This ...

The global climate summit COP30 that took place in Brazil in November fell short of expectations. It is not that the world is not concerned about climate change or that ...

“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”Nothing beside remains.The lone and level sands stretch far away.— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Percy Shelley’s Ozymandias is not a ...

On December 16, two contrasting articles appeared in the Financial Times that spoke volumes about the very different approaches to world trade currently at play. One was written by Peter Navarro, ...

It is December 28, which means many of us are deep into the Season of Delusion, a magical period when grown adults behave like weird Elfies drunk on mulled wine. The ...

A review of the year and predicting the shape of things to come in 2026 and beyond must begin with events at home. The Cyprus Mail is of course a Cypriot ...

The furore over photos of teenagers signalling Nazi salutes and their swastika handiwork around school property at Larnaca’s Vergina high school ten days ago died down over Christmas week ...

In recent days the government of President Nikos Christodoulides and MPs approved the government budgets and a tax reform. In doing so they have missed real opportunities to support policies ...

A vast amount of information has not necessarily meant more reliable information, writes James Rodgers, a former BBC correspondent who held postings in Gaza, Moscow and Brussels On December 10, the ...

The Christmas and New Year period is traditionally a time associated with peace, reconciliation and goodwill, but as Europe looks towards 2026, the prospects are shaped less by seasonal sentiment than ...

A historian describes the turbulent times of the real nativity By Joan Taylor Every year, millions of people sing the beautiful carol Silent Night, with its line “all is calm, ...

But it has to dump a lot of baggage first By Kerry Abbott When Cyprus hosted the conference of European Small States in September, it was not so obvious that ...

Every year hundreds of thousands of words are published in the run up to December 25 on Christmas vs everything. It’s too secularist and materialistic, Bing Crosby’s White Christmas ...

Scrooge’s ghosts terrified him; I love mine. First, Bridget, my mother, and Aunt Emma, a child waking very early on Christmas morning finding gifts from Daddy na Nollaig (Santa). ...

It is very easy to understand the outrage of Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos for having to pay an extortionate price for a beach cleaning machine, also known as a ‘beach ...