Super-rich may quit UK over Labour plans for inheritance taxes on trusts
Private banks and advisers to Britain’s super-rich say some clients may quit the country if Labour wins next month’s general election and pushes ahead with plans to abolish ...
Our View: Prioritising air-conditioning over education quality
In the end the teaching unions were vindicated – the biggest problem facing public education is not falling standards, low literacy, poor teaching, anti-social behaviour, but the lack of air-conditioning units ...
UK ELECTIONS
UK politicians’ election pledges can’t stop rising tax burden
Britain’s next government will find it near-impossible to stop tax levels approaching an all-time high, despite an election campaign in which both major parties have promised not to increase ...
Our View: Firefighting aircraft shortage highlights government negligence
Every year we face the same problem when big fires break out in the countryside. We do not have anywhere near enough firefighting aircraft and have to rely on the ...
Are you getting the most from mindfulness?
By Nathaniel Johnson and Hali Kil
You’ve probably seen the word mindfulness everywhere these days, from the news, to magazines, to social media.
Mindfulness is sometimes packaged as a ...
ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE
EU’s new AI rules ignite battle over data transparency
A new set of laws governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union will force companies to be more transparent about the data used to train their ...
Our View: Extravagant wages for hospital staff risk financial collapse
The revelation on Tuesday that government doctors are on annual salaries of about €150,000 did not go down very well with their union Pasyki, which immediately went on the offensive. Its ...
Embracing the New Moon in June
On June 6 around 2:40pm, the New Moon graced the sky in the sign of Gemini. This celestial event holds profound significance for all of us.
June is barely a few ...
Our View: Centre parties now stand for nothing
The biggest losers of Sunday’s elections for the European parliament were the parties of the so-called ‘centre’ – Diko, Edek and Dipa – which saw their total support almost halved since 2019, ...
Following everyman Fidias on an unknown path
By Emily Petrou
Populism is a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.
The best way to ...
Our View: Young influencer who swept the floor in Cyprus’ EU elections
Fidias Panayiotou, the 24-year-old, proudly apolitical YouTuber and TikToker with a natural talent for self-publicity, completely dominated Sunday’s elections for the European parliament. His independent candidacy, which offered literally ...
Europe’s far right seeks policy influence to match seat gains
Europe’s nationalist parties capitalised in the European Parliament election on voter disquiet over spiralling prices, migration and the cost of the green transition and will now seek to translate ...
Ignorance cost us half of Cyprus and put the rest at risk
During the negative political climate that followed the rejection of the Annan plan in 2004, a politically idiotic soundbite became very popular, calling for the “end of the policy of the ...
Time for change – radical change – in awarding tenders
It is clear from the spectacular failure of almost all major high profile projects this year that the whole system of tendering and awarding such projects is in disrepair and ...
A myth that freedom and democracy are under threat in 2024
President Joe Biden was in Normandy in France this week for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings on June 6 in which he gave a speech that drew a parallel ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Heatwave produced a whole lot of media hot air
THE BIGGEST news story over last few days has been that it was very hot. As if anyone in Kyproulla had not felt the scorching heat and had to be ...
Simple habits can save lots of water
After coming to live in Cyprus quite a few years ago, my husband and I decided that we would ‘do our bit’ to help with saving water! (In England, we’...
Our View: How real is the far-right threat to the European Union?
There is only one issue in today’s European parliament elections. How strong will the nationalist parties of the far right emerge? This has been the main talking point of ...
No one accepting responsibility for dangerous trees
I’ve lived in Cyprus for many years and own a property in Paphos. My income is a pension that goes straight to a Cyprus bank and I am a ...
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took ‘Earthrise’ photo, dead in plane crash
By Peter Cooney and Steve Gorman
Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed “Earthrise” photo during Nasa’s ...
Cities contain pockets of nature – study shows which species are most tolerant of urbanisation
By Joseph Curti and Morgan Tingley
The Earth is losing animals, plants and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering its sixth mass extinction. ...
European elections at a crossroads
By Ioannis Tirkides
This moment in the European elections is very different from the last one, five years ago. The starting conditions are different, the challenges are different. The priorities ...
Our View: Christodoulides lacks Cyprus problem plan, will blame Tatar
It was surprising the Cyprus News Agency correspondent in New York reported that the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin would continue her mission in Cyprus for another ...
Our View: Banks that are reluctant to lend are not good for the economy
The European Central Bank (ECB), as had been widely expected, reduced interest rates in the euro zone. It was a small reduction of 25 basis points, bringing the ECB’s key ...