Keeping the red flag flying
There are still a number of communist parties active in the world, among them those in China and Cyprus, which, in their different ways kept the red flag flying after ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The revolution was cancelled
UNFORTUNATELY, the election results were disappointingly predictable and the instability that the government, Annita, Junior and Phil’s hacks were terrified of did not happen.
The two big parties both ...
Our View: Political privilege has no place in a modern democracy
The remuneration, allowances, retirement bonus and pensions of deputies featured in news reports in the last week and reminded us that in Cyprus there is a political aristocracy that enjoys ...
The reality behind an Insta-perfect move to Paphos
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
What you don’t want to hear is that the first building block of my new life in Paphos became one of the most exhausting experiences of ...
Our View: Fresh UN push unlikely to break Cyprus deadlock
After a four-month absence, the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy, Maria Angel Holguin, will arrive next week on what appears to be yet another exploratory visit. Holguin, who was last ...
Our View: House speaker race matters less than politicians pretend
As soon as the results of the parliamentary elections were announced, all public attention shifted to who will be the next president of the House of Representatives. It has been ...
Our View: Is joining Schengen a realistic goal right now?
President Christodoulides clearly sees Cyprus playing a larger role in Europe. He is keen to get the message out there that Cyprus is not just a destination in Europe but ...
Our View: Public should not be consulted about plans to ease Limassol traffic congestion
Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades was in Limassol on Monday for a brainstorming session aimed at coming up with ideas for dealing with steadily worsening traffic congestion in the city. The ...
Sonny Rollins, saxophone ‘colossus’ who honed his sound on a New York bridge, dies at 95
Sonny Rollins had recorded the confidently titled “Jazz Colossus” album in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt.
So, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept ...
Iran: The curious absence of nuclear weapons
Tulsi Gabbard, the recently resigned/retired/fired US Director of National Intelligence, told Congress just two months ago that US intelligence agencies had concluded Iran was not building nuclear weapons. ...
Our View: No problem that president not backed by new Cyprus House
In the end, the fears that the parliamentary elections would produce a dysfunctional, fragmented legislature that would destabilise the country proved totally unfounded. Perhaps the scaremongering by the government, Disy ...
Three reinforcing forces why nobody stopped the Iran war
Thursday, February 26. Around 5pm, the final Situation Room meeting got underway. The positions of everyone in the room were already known before they sat down.
Trump went around the table.
...
From ‘likes’ to liability: influencers through the lens of the law
By Antonis Glykis and Christina Avgousti
In a world where social media influencers have become demigods and authority figures for millions of consumers, it seems that questions of legal accountability ...
Is demographic collapse a good idea?
Smart phones seem to be directly linked to a worldwide crash in the birth rate.
It is “quite plausible that the modern digital media environment has had profound effects on ...
Vienna 2026: boycotts and chaos
It most definitely was not a good year for Eurovision
By Alper Ali Riza
What to say about Eurovision 2026 in Vienna other than that Dara won it for Bulgaria with ‘...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: ‘Festival of democracy’ even includes AI gorilla
WHAT a relief that the elections will be over this evening and from tomorrow I will not have to see the face of big-shot candidate George Pamborides staring at me ...
Our View: Can smaller parties really ‘destablise’ parliament?
There will be 753 candidates contesting the 56 seats in today’s parliamentary elections. Nine will be standing as independents, although none of them is expected to have the impact that one ...
Our View: Authorities must enforce FMD rules despite farmers’ anger
It is impossible not to feel sympathy for the livestock farmers who are seeing everything they have worked for – their livelihoods – destroyed by foot and mouth disease. It is also ...
Our View: Disy’s fear campaign blurs line between government and opposition
Leader of Disy and president of the House, Annita Demetriou, pulled the curtain on her party’s election campaign on Wednesday night, by repeating her uninspiring message that a vote ...
Our View: No more money to hotels due to just one hard year
Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis did the right thing on Tuesday when he introduced a sense of perspective and reason to public discourse about the lower tourist figures in ...
Arms and the men who lead us
Lara Marlowe has written on art and politics in France, a country she knows extremely well, she has reported from Washington, and covered wars in Lebanon and Ukraine, she knows ...
Our View: Price alone does not attract consumers to a specific supermarket
Every few months the Consumers Association issues figures collected via e-kalathi which compare the prices of a range of products available in different supermarkets. In the latest edition, the association ...
Our View: No law that says journalists cannot be criticised
Are journalists above criticism? Our government and political parties seem to think so as their reaction last week to the criticism of television journalist, Stella Savva, by Alma candidate Irene ...
Cyprus remains among the most vulnerable to continued Hormuz closure
The US-Iran ceasefire remains in place, but President Trump’s repeated warnings keep oil prices high, over $110/b. The much-heralded Trump-Xi summit in Beijing was more of a show than ...