Anastasiades’ clumsy scheming now fully revealed
By Loucas Charalambous I HAVE written on countless occasions that our president is a ruthless, but also clumsy schemer. Not long after his election, I...
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It’s time for Papadopoulos to reveal his ingenious new strategy
By Loucas Charalambous The Diko leader keeps talking about a new way forward in the talks, but reveals nothing THE SO-CALLED national council convenes on...
Unwelcome memories of the ill-fated ‘defence dogma’ with Greece
By Loucas Charalambous IN November 1993 Greece’s then prime minister, Andreas Papandreou, triumphantly announced the now famous ‘Unified Defence Dogma’. As part of this doctrine,...
Has playing to media ruined chances of solution?
By Loucas Charalambous I think one of the most harmful influences on the efforts to find a Cyprus settlement is the excessive publicity. This, unfortunately,...
Lunatics amassing as endgame nears
By Loucas Charalambous I THINK no rational person would disagree that the prevailing situation lately is that of a madhouse. I fear, in fact, I...
Gesy: the biggest state Minotaur of them all
The black holes of CyTA and CyBC will pale into insignificance next to the National Health Scheme By Loucas Charalambous THE ISSUE of the National...
Let’s hope Turkey invades during army’s working hours
By Loucas Charalambous I HAD decided not to deal with the hiring of the 3,000 professional soldiers by the National Guard. Then, I saw on...
President should take heed of his own plea for seriousness
By Loucas Charalambous “IF WE want a solution we must be grounded and negotiate seriously,” said President Nicos Anastasiades in an interview on Sigma TV...
Pensioned off at 33? No wonder Greece is bankrupt
By Loucas Charalambous THE MOST impressive thing about all the things written and said by our political demagogues and naive journalists, who are outraged over...
A breakdown of shop opening hour lunacy
By Loucas Charalambous THE RIDICULOUS legislation about Sunday shopping voted in by the opposition parties came as no surprise. We have known these politicians for...
We did not arrive at partition and bankruptcy by accident
By Loucas Charalambous BELOW is an excerpt from an interview given by foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides to Politis last Sunday. Question: Would it be considered...
Anastasiades’ pointless temper tantrum
By Loucas Charalambous THE ‘WITHDRAWAL’ of President Anastasiades from the talks reminds one of the well-known saying from the Cypriot vernacular, that “the anger of...
When a president engages in crude populism
By Loucas Charalambous THE STORY has been widely reported by the newspapers. A CyBC journalist was facing serious health problems and according to the health...
National council nothing more than a circus
By Loucas Charalambous MANY have dismissed the National Council as a national coffeeshop. Giorgos Perdikis, one of its regular customers, described it a few years...
EEZ defence spending purely about commissions
By Loucas Charalambous AT THE end of May last year, the then defence minister Fotis Fotiou leaked information that the government planned to buy two...
Decimated kingmakers still feel able to gloat
By Loucas Charalambous THE ONLY safe conclusion you can arrive at, on hearing everything our politicians said after last Sunday’s European elections, is that they...
A rotten society immersed in corruption
By Loucas Charalambous IN THE END, it was not just the politicians, the bankers, the developers, the unions and the media that destroyed our society....
No sense of urgency in the talks
By Loucas Charalambous I HAD WRITTEN last week that if we wanted to solve the Cyrus problem this could be done in 30 days, but...
AKEL: masters of audacity and hypocrisy
By Loucas Charalambous TWO COMMON features have always dominated the behaviour of our politicians – audacity and hypocrisy. All of them have displayed these character...
Why dwell solely on the Akritas plan?
READER’S LETTER by Philippos Stylianou I WISH to take issue with the article by your regular columnist my old friend and colleague from the time we...