The domestic worker’s revenge
Back in the boom days of 1998, a book titled “Yes madam, sorry madam” chronicled the relationship between Asian domestic workers and their Cypriot employers. This was around the time these women first...
View ArticleThe cosy affair between President and Prosecution
It hardly matters what the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General declare in their asset disclosures, since everyone declares whatever they want and certainly not where they got it from. What...
View ArticleAre the trees really to blame?
After hours of being battered by winds and watching trees fall, we now look up at the tall pines and other large trees in urban areas with dread. But are the trees really to blame? These trees were...
View ArticleIt happens to the best of families
News that shocks us typically comes from the third world or countries ruled by Islamic fundamentalists. But what’s happening in the progressive Western world? News from Denmark tells us the country...
View ArticleThere is no such thing as silent consent
When the Gisele Pelicot rape case became public, the first reaction was shock at what could be happening right next door, in a civilised country, inside our very homes. Then came admiration for this...
View ArticleWe are missing the real problem
When the Deputy Attorney General announced through an interview, laying the groundwork for seeking Odysseas Michaelides’ removal from his position as Auditor General on charges of misconduct, few...
View ArticleWith what kind of love, Christiana?
In Greece, when journalists seek statements from Mpeos, Kougias, and others like them, or invite them onto their shows, they do so knowing full well that something extreme will be said and controversy...
View ArticleThe assassination of a CEO
At this year’s Nicosia International Festival, the Municipal Theatre hosted a Portuguese production titled “Catarina And the Beauty Of Killing Fascists.” The playwright and director, Tiago Rodrigues,...
View ArticleArms dealers now, too
A few years ago, we thought we’d become the next Bollywood, if not Hollywood itself. The previous government had even prepared an incentive scheme for what we dubbed the cypriot ‘Olivewood’. The only...
View ArticleTwo women, two different worlds
Yesterday marked the legal conclusion of a horrific case in France, where a man was convicted of orchestrating the rape of his wife by multiple men whom he invited to their home after drugging her...
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