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It’s generally bad form to quote another journalist, but Stewart Lee’s day job is stand-up comedian, so we can make an exception just this once. Writing in The ...

In the Cyprus problem it is essential Greek Cypriots regain the moral high ground that has been lost due to our own stupidity By Christos P Panayiotides For quite some ...

By Gwynne Dyer Ukraine wants more offensive weapons including modern tanks, self-propelled artillery and combat aircraft from Nato countries for its war with the Russian invaders, but it won’t ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent decades, inflation in developed economies has been contained at historically low levels. With the onset of the pandemic in early 2020 and the ...

Some cynical clever dick at the Home Office has devised a scheme to deter asylum seekers By Alper Ali Riza Rwanda is perceived as the most refugee-repellant country in the ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Did you hear the one about the IRA man who, when told by his superiors to sabotage a British vehicle by ‘Blowing ...

Controlling prices by getting civil servants to draw a line between legitimate and illegitimate profit is a futile exercise What is the margin of profit? On the face of it, ...

With tectonic shifts on the world stage, now really is the time to solve the Cyprus problem and put Cyprus’ energy finds to use In a fast-changing geopolitical world – following ...

War crimes difficult to prove except that sometimes the facts speak for themselves According to the Nuremberg Tribunal crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes are committed by ...

Two weeks ago, the three biggest wars in the world were in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Yemen. Now truces have silenced the guns and the air strikes in two of the ...

Cyprus’ behaviour in relation to Russia is of concern to the West I am not sure whether my thinking has been influenced by the fact that we are half way ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Economic indicators confirm that Cyprus enjoys a satisfactory standard of living. However, the periodic crises, experienced during recent decades, as well as the new ...

How politics has led to deterioration of the labour market since 2012 Has the Cyprus economy recovered from the financial crisis of 2012/2013 in that the majority of its citizens by 2021 were ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be able to save himself, but he may already have saved another despot, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban. There’s an election in ...

It seems ages ago that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin published a letter in the New York Times over the head of the US administration appealing directly to the American ...

By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I always enjoy the articles in Sunday’s Living. Those related to women’s health give interesting and diverse opinions on what’s good and bad ...

Ukraine crisis has created opportunities for the East Med region and Cyprus gas With the EU seeking to get-rid of Russian gas – now at 40 per cent – by two-thirds by the ...

Russian troops are stalled for the third week outside most of the major cities of eastern and central Ukraine, but they have failed to surround and cut off any of ...

Worrying talk of a push to re-establish a bank which cost us all so dearly The trigger for writing this article was a discussion on Omega TV last week which ...

Predatory marriages and UK inheritance law The abuse of marriage is usually associated with deceiving the immigration authorities of a state to obtain residence by people who have no intention ...

Veteran negotiator at various rounds of Cyprus talks should think twice about running for president Andreas Mavroyiannis recently told a journalist that he does not rule out the possibility of ...

The Syrian and Ukraine crises have highlighted the flaws in the current refugee protection system Like the Syrian refugee crisis, the current displacement of people caused by the war in ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Ireland, isle of saints and scholars. Glowing PR to which we can add sinners given the past clerical abuse of unmarried mothers ...

In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen said “EU’s strategy for hydrogen and LNG will be intensified, along with ...