For better or for worse (probably the second), Liz Truss is the new UK prime minister. In her brief speech upon her election as leader of the Conservative Party, she comically declared “we will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver”. How can she deliver when her policies are fundamentally catastrophic, based on sending weapons […]
One million people may cancel their direct debit payments to energy companies en masse on 1st October. Are there any Cypriots among them? It would be very interesting to hear what they think and what they are planning to do.
For some he was a great man, a brave and wise man, that ended the cold war, withdrew the Soviet troops from East Germany and helped the reunification of Germany, tried hard to democratise Russia and the Soviet Union. For others, especially in his own country, he was a weak and naive leader that was […]
The real cause of the energy problem is our own backfiring sanctions on Russia, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – for which we are as guilty as Russia – together, of course, with the incredible greed of the energy companies. The problem cannot be solved as long as the current East-West economic warfare and the […]
The very high inflation in Turkey and the massive devaluation of the Turkish lira have catalytic repercussions for the whole of Cyprus. For the first time, more people – including more Greek Cypriots – crossed from the Republic-of-Cyprus-controlled area into north Cyprus than vice versa. The laws of the market know no “borders”. The whole […]
It seems that Odysseas N. Odysseos thinks that all UK Cypriots are Greek Cypriots and Orthodox Christians, if we go by a tweet he posted recently. Let’s see who is Odysseas N. Odysseos and why what he thinks and posts on Twitter can be a problem for us and for Cyprus.
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were little toys compared with modern […]
All of the candidates for the Conservative leadership and UK premiership have promised to keep the controversial Rwanda policy, which has been widely criticised by charities, human rights groups and bishops. But Liz Truss thought she could go one step further. The incompetent foreign secretary thought Turkey could take Rwanda’s place. What was Ankara’s reaction?
“Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens to derail Nato enlargement again”. That was the title of a Financial Times report that appeared in the online edition of the London newspaper in the evening of 30/06/2022. The report ends with what Toni Alaranta, a Turkey expert at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, wrote on Twitter in response to […]