The prize refusers
Most people want to be recognised. Artists, scientists, writers — the drive to create is inseparable, for most, from the desire to be seen. A prize won’t always be the point, but when one arrives, it...
View ArticleGoodbye old world
Twenty years ago, Stathis Tsagkarousianos chose this title for a book containing his conversations with people who seemed like remnants of a world that no longer existed. The title fits perfectly the...
View ArticleAn owed farewell
Today’s column marks the end of our daily encounters. No one’s forced my hand—this is a choice, a deliberate retreat into silence after 35 years in print, first at Alitheia and then here at the...
View ArticleWhen you put all your eggs in one basket
The historic centre of Nicosia, the walled city, is the most compelling part of town. Both in the free area and in the occupied north. And its first misfortune is that it’s been carved up. Beyond...
View ArticleLiving it is one thing. Loving it is another.
Right then. Try explaining to the Brits that we’re not cannibals. That Cypriots don’t eat human hearts. It’s just that the pathologists employed by our state services can’t pinpoint what caused...
View ArticleThe purity of the race
A story that gripped Greek media and social networks this week was the solving of a murder: a 75-year-old woman killed in her home on the island of Salamina on 31 October. After police investigations,...
View ArticleAnother episode in the prison saga
So now we’re supposed to believe that prisons aren’t the lair of crime where locked-up criminals orchestrate murders, rape vulnerable inmates, blackmail prosecutors, control the drugs trade, and...
View ArticleThe moufflon’s futile battle for power—and us
TikToker Bora Markovic, who regularly posts stunning scenes from Cyprus’s wilderness—revealing landscapes we never knew existed on our island—shared a photograph the day before yesterday. Two moufflon...
View ArticleEveryone’s still at their positions
How many times have we thought the button’s been pressed—that’s it, no more, it can’t go on. After this (whatever this was), something will happen, something will change. We can’t just carry on as...
View ArticleTo resign or not to resign…
So Savvas Angelides isn’t resigning from his post as assistant attorney general after all. He simply met with the President of the Republic at the presidential palace, on a human level, to raise his...
View ArticleAnother cohort of brains prepares for departure
They achieved top marks, excelled academically, and secured places in their chosen fields at the University of Cyprus. Yet many will leave for other countries: France, the Netherlands, Britain,...
View ArticleAnother landmark erased from the city
“Preserving cultural heritage is not only a legal obligation but primarily a moral duty of the State, as evidenced by the heritage protection legislation and conventions adopted by the Republic of...
View ArticleAt Mia Milia or Pyroi?
We are counting the years since the Turkish invasion these days. Fifty-one. But the invasion continues daily. Fifty-one years ago there was displacement, the dead, the missing, the losses, the pain…...
View ArticleExercises in sadism in Gaza
We are still debating whether what is being perpetrated in Gaza constitutes genocide, observes Dimitris Politakis in Lifo, citing excerpts from an article by Israeli historian and Holocaust scholar Dr...
View ArticleIs the ECHR part of the conspiracy?
If he were a politician, he would resign, he says. Which suggests he understands the significance and weight of the European Court judgment that names him as responsible for obstructing the trial of a...
View ArticleWill the President withstand the pressure?
Everything comes and goes, and perhaps both the Deputy Attorney General and the President of the Republic are banking on this principle. However, the crisis facing the Justice system has never been so...
View ArticleIf Katina’s skin colour was different
You are someone living an ordinary life. You rent a home, run a small restaurant where you cook and sell food, work with all the delivery platforms, receive positive reviews on TripAdvisor praising...
View ArticleThe dismissal of the unsuitable
The Supreme Judicial Council states that Doria Varoshiotou herself knows why her appointment was not confirmed, having been served with a reasoned decision. Whatever reasons the Council may cite,...
View ArticleA response to authoritarianism
Humanity appears to be suffocating. For eighteen months, the world has watched people in Gaza die from bombs or starvation, whilst in Ukraine the war shows no sign of ending. Thousands of children...
View ArticleThe erosion of the coasts
We have suddenly discovered that the Kourion coastal area is being dangerously eroded. This area forms part of the British bases, preventing the Republic’s authorities from intervening to salvage the...
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