Opinion

History is mostly a matter of dates, and the key date is always that of the last conquest. All previous conquests are then magically forgiven and forgotten. This observation is ...

Describing herself as an accidental politician, the head of Belarus’ government in exile was in Cyprus this week drumming up support against the country’s leader, who she accuses of ...

Court decided that there was a risk that the Israeli government harboured intention to destroy the Palestinians of Gaza as a group Last week this column reported on an open ...

The latest evaluation report of the national health scheme Gesy raised some very important concerns, which could jeopardise its medium-term viability if not tackled in the foreseeable future. It is ...

By Daniel Drache In November 2023, Geert Wilders’ stridently anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim party swept the Dutch elections in what the media called a political earthquake. The magnitude of his win came as ...

It was astonishing to hear that a gymnasium student who had been sexually abused by fellow students was still expected to go to the same school as his abusers, a ...

We have written about Cyprus – after decades of close ties with the Soviet Union and Russia – finally taking its place in the West under the Christodoulides government. It immediately implemented ...

By Jayden Greenwell-Barnden Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen (2024) is the latest series to reimagine the age-old trope with which it shares its name. So what exactly is a ‘gentleman’? And ...

Sometimes deputies behave as if we are living in a socialist state with a command economy in which the pursuit of profit by businesses is morally unacceptable even though it ...

What should you do when your government assures you that everything is under control and says there is no need to buy generators, stock up on food and withdraw money ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ impromptu visit to Lebanon on Monday appears to have been dictated more by the need to be seen to be doing something about the increased flow of ...

What is it about Mercury in retrograde that leads to chaos? Venturing into April 2024, many of us may find ourselves entangled in a web of minor misfortunes – the computer crashing ...

We wonder if there are many countries in the world in which the legislature feels duty-bound to discuss the number of days of annual sick leave that is granted to ...

By Gulcin Ozkan For many years, it wasn’t the economy that determined voting behaviour in Turkey. The country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, won almost every election he ...

US frustration has reached an apex By Arshad Mohammed, Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland US President Joe Biden effectively gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum on Thursday: protect ...

I read with interest, “Our View: Host of concerns about smart meters” (Cyprus Mail, April 2). While raising some important issues, there is at least one glaring omission: health and safety. ...

On March 8 a package was dispatched from a specialist confectionery shop, Dolly’s, in Surrey, UK to a young Cypriot recipient in Anavargos, Cyprus as a gift to celebrate western ...

Egypt has traditionally attracted significant interest, due to its distinctive historical and cultural weight, the sheer size of the country’s area and population, its geopolitical location and its control ...

The time to abolish “Daylight Saving” is long overdue! It makes no sense to deprive people of an hour’s sleep. The number of heart attacks and other health issues ...

There are plenty of crazies in Russian politics who make bizarre claims about their country’s victim status (“the evil West made us do it”) and issue blood-curdling but implausible ...

An open letter to the UK prime minister signed by 600 lawyers and retired judges, including three former Supreme Court judges, expressed grave concern that the UK government is not discharging ...

The arrival of over a dozen boats in the space of a week, carrying hundreds of Syrian irregular migrants, has sparked talk of ‘crisis’ and a migrant ‘invasion’. But how ...

Any tax reform should strive towards fiscal policies that strive for sustainable finances and ecconomic Equity By Orestis Aristides With regards to personal income tax, the option of taxing family ...

March was a busy month when it comes to environmental issues and climate change, marking both Earth Day and World Meteorology Day and giving the chance to politicians to publicly ...