Opinion

Scarcely a week passes without some media pundit or attention-seeking historian warning that a Great War is nigh. As always, there are enough signs and portents around to make that ...

The population in many areas of the world including Europe, Japan and China is ageing at a rapid rate because of declining birth rates and people living longer. In fact, ...

Having lived in Cyprus for nearly five years and taken a keen interest in the politics of this idyllic country, I find that I am increasingly reminded of the UK ...

I have been in Limassol for over 20 years, and have always enjoyed the clean beaches, just like the tourists. Over the past week, I have been on an [organised] beach ...

The problems the auditor-general is facing reminded me of a conversation I had a few years ago with the late Rustem Tatar Cyprus’ first auditor-general 1960-63, and father of the ...

THE SHOCK caused to the political and media establishment by Fidias Panayiotou in last Sunday’s elections for the European parliament was a joy to behold. The self-satisfied, self-regarding, self-aggrandising ...

The pressure on the government to allow the 26 migrants, stranded in the buffer zone – some since May 15 – to access asylum procedures is increasing. After Unficyp, the UNHCR and the European ...

By Tatiana der Avedissian Climate and gender are not generally treated as related issues – yet they are.  Climate change most harshly affects those living in extreme poverty, and these are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...