Starmer and stammering
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou By the time this goes to print the Sword of Damocles hanging over the head of Boris Johnson’s...
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Alternative medicines
By Richard Dickenson Having what I like to think of as an open mind, I have always felt it a mistake to dismiss the ideas...
Fingers crossed
By Richard Dickenson Yes, but why? Why ‘fingers crossed?’ I know it’s not true but whenever I see a magpie on its own or an...
Qi and cha
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I took down my Qigong (Chigong) Therapy book given me by a Chinese friend. A death in...
Nightmare is more like a dream come true
By Dick Richards Do you ever get the feeling that the idiots have taken over the asylum? ‘How are you?’ asked my kid brother calling...
The economics of the coronavirus #4
By Christos P. Panayiotides LIQUIDITY is a difficult-to-understand but widely used economic term. The term is often used by people who wish to transmit an...
Home is where…
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The end of that sentence is always subjective as to where and what home is. Going through old...
Methane and money
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou When we ladies are asked, ‘Does my bum look big in this?’ we call upon honed female skills...
The Bone Yard
By Richard Dickenson For this year it is more or less over for Cyprus, but in UK, and viruses permitting, it is still open season....
Our View: How far can the government’s economic measures go?
The announcement of measures to support the economy will soon become as frequent as those implemented to protect public health. It is to be expected...
The evolving Irish
THE WAYS THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou March 17 was the feast of St. Patrick, the day we imagine everybody feels Irish enough, perhaps, to...
Eat your greens
By Richard Dickenson I hate Brussels. And I don’t mean that as a euphemism for the EU. No, I mean Brussels Sprouts. These are one...
Muses and musing
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I met two friends in a department store; Dub was sniffing deodorants and Maria passing by to...
Death to the machines
By Richard Dickenson In a lecture the professor was demonstrating the functions of a small experimental robot. It was the size of a kid’s doll...
Brought to book
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I was given a book and told it was ‘unputdownable’. By chapter three, I found it unpickupable....
The invention of the devil
By Richard Dickenson ‘Wossher mobile number?’ he asked. I was stymied. If he’d asked the vibration frequency of a perfect fifth above Middle C I’d...
Adam’s rib
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Going with the Bible, we females weren’t the first twinkle in God’s eye when the deity decided to...
What’s the odds?
By Richard Dickenson Even as kids there was always a certain buzz to be had when rolling dice. Everything depended on the infallible rule that...
There’s always painting by numbers
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I watched The Kominsky Method on Netflix, starring Michael Douglas as a thrice married acting coach and...
Que sera sera
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I used to make New Year wishes and resolutions. No more! As Max Ehrmann said in his...