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Democracy always finds a way to correct itself

What really happened in the United States on 3 November may be simpler than the hundreds of analyses churned...
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When schizophrenia becomes a slogan

Professor Kyriakos Veresies, a neurologist and psychiatrist who chairs the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Philips University...
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Abdul El-Sayed: Never before has darkness looked so “progressive”

Some politicians dodge difficult questions. Then there is Abdul El-Sayed, the newly elected Democratic Senator in Michigan, who has...
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The rotating presidency, in its most dazzling disguise

Sotiris Paroutis, who made a programme about the rotating presidency (good for him!), asked Niyazi Kizilyurek about the insecurity...
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Blackmail, Averof’s belly laugh, Annita’s broken record and looming defeat

For a month now we have watched the backstabbing in the DISY camp on Pindarou Street. All the while,...
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A standing alarm over new drugs

Alarm bells have been ringing in law enforcement for a long time. The drugs in circulation are changing, and...
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Cyprus’s wealth soars, but inequality brings us down to earth

The Cypriot economy is growing. The public finances are in surplus. The economic indicators paint a positive picture. Wealth...
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A price list for outrage: protest for full wallets only

Across Europe, governments are busy turning protest into a luxury that few can afford. Take Albania. People there have recently...
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The artificial “hand” on the manuscript

In March 2026, the American publisher Hachette withdrew the horror novel Shy Girl by Mia Ballard. The book had...
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From Dromolaxia to Patagonia: Halfwits know no borders

Some may think that fantasies of a Jewish takeover were somewhat a Cypriot specialty. Wrong. On our tiny, half-island,...
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The heavy industry of hate

How enemies are manufactured, how propaganda passes itself off as common sense, and how fear becomes a fuse in...
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Totalitarianism has many legs

In the so-called “free” world, at least, punishing an offence pre-emptively, before it is committed, even if it never...
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A synagogue and an embassy above Cyprus’s own citizens

Let us begin with some reassurance for our friends, and above all our enemies, who lose sleep over antisemitism,...

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