The role of Ukraine in US presidential debate
Before saying anything about the Great Debate in the US last week between the best-looking old man Donald Trump and the best-looking fifty-something woman, a few words about the way ...
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Grenfell Tower: greed, dishonesty and incompetence at every level
But families still waiting for justice seven years later
Judge-led inquiries that investigate events that cause serious loss of life are part of the procedural aspect of the right to ...
Anything can happen at sea
Like the Titanic the super yacht Bayesian that sank off the coast of Sicily in a freak weather event on August 19 was virtually unsinkable. But it sank and seven passengers ...
History bodes well for US vice presidents as president
Vice President Kamala Harris is now the Democratic Party’s official candidate for president. In her acceptance speech, she introduced herself as if she were a complete unknown even though ...
It used to be the economy, stupid
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the American historian Francis Fukuyama called it the end of history. Liberal democracy had triumphed as the ideal system of government having seen off ...
Elon Musk’s ‘two-tier Keir’ jibe against British PM wrong
It is summer riot season in England and Northern Ireland and if you believe what Elon Musk posts on X, the UK is in civil war mode. Just because there ...
Modern Turkey’s place in the Middle East
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not often go along with the geopolitical concerns of the US and Europe. He belongs to the generation of Turkish politicians whose outlook is ...
US love of Israel trumps ICJ condemnation
The standing ovation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received from a joint session of the US Congress last week was in stark contrast to the unqualified condemnation of Israel by ...
American women can defeat Trump
President Biden should resign in favour of women candidates
Where were you when an all American boy from Pennsylvania attempted to assassinate former US president and candidate for president Donald ...
Holguin’s mission impossible proved just that
Reading between the lines of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s appeal to Cypriots to get involvedover the heads of their leaders, was an admission that common ground eluded her ...
The twists and turns of leaving the top job
Politics is a rough old trade and never rougher than when the electorate evicts the British prime minister from his official residence at 10 Downing Street. The moment the leader of ...
Britain is a nation of gamblers
Napoleon Bonaparte famously called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. Britain seemed more like a nation of gamblers after the betting scandal last week.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gambled on ...
Democracy and observing human rights are not always compatible
The Refugee Convention was intended as a temporary expedient and not as a vehicle for permanent settlement elsewhere
Like it or not the tilt to the extreme right in elections ...
Attorney-general the watchman of the public interest
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 ...
A myth that freedom and democracy are under threat in 2024
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 ...
Could a convicted felon become US president?
Why did Trump not take the stand and be cross-examined in front of the jury?
The paradox about Donald Trump’s conviction on Thursday for falsifying business records is not ...
UK ELECTIONS
Both Labour and Tories lack ‘the vision thing’
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walked a few steps to a lectern outside his official residence at 10 Downing Street in London last Wednesday to announce that he was calling an ...
A new world order really is in the making
The beginning of the end of Pax Americana
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on a state visit to China declared a new era in international relations. Well, he would say ...
Broken Britain: right-wing defection drama
Politics in the UK turned farcical last week when Natalie Elphicke, the Conservative member for Dover, defected to the Labour Party. In the jargon, she crossed the floor and sat ...
What potential arrest warrants against Israeli leaders mean
Israeli leaders are waiting with bated breath to find out if the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is going to issue arrest warrants against some of them for ...
Rwanda solution is probably lawful but not the answer
West’s foreign policy blunders to blame for migrant crisis
What to do about boat people? The problem is not as overwhelming in UK as it is in the Mediterranean ...
Iran, Israel and the right to self-defence
It is extraordinary that the West still buys into the idea that it was necessary and proportionate for the defence of Israel to destroy Gaza
The UN Charter which was ...
ICJ made the right call on Israel’s actions in Gaza
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 ...
Lawyers warn UK prime minister of genocide
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 ...