You’ve been taken for a ride

There seems to be a collective resignation among the public that things can’t change and the system will eventually grind you down. Politicians fill the air with promises they won’t keep or

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A wake-up call on the streets of Limassol

Ironically, the one time the police took right-wing extremist violence seriously, the protestors didn’t turn up, and those non-Cypriot-looking people told to stay indoors could come out of hiding. Although the left

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Dial down the bigotry and hate

There should be little surprise in government that several years of negative messaging about the irregular migrant ‘tidal wave’ transcended into extremist violence in Chlorakas. What the politicians failed to grasp, and

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Where justice fears to tread

Without fanfare or declaration, the Attorney General has decided that a British pensioner who killed his wife to end her suffering should still be behind bars and maybe die in prison. A

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Living on the extinction horizon

Those watching the heart-wrenching scenes of wildfires destroying Greece and the heroic effort against the flames have many Cypriots feeling it could be us. Cyprus is no stranger to wildfires, with the

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Who are we, and what do we want?

There was a rather subdued feeling about this year’s Black anniversary remembrance events, with a sense of fatigue after 49 years of hurt and division. Government officials made their usual attendance of

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When the sun goes down

Cyprus is quickly entering summer snooze mode when the politicians take a break from being insincere with the truth and the government puts the country on auto-pilot. The weather is becoming relentlessly

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Keeping secrets

It’s almost impossible to say how effective our intelligence services are in thwarting terrorist plots or preventing homegrown nutcases from doing something reckless. Some unkind critics would wager there is nothing intelligent

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