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Onasagoras

Politics blog: The 67 million, CyBC, and cat neutering

A bombshell statement from Chrisis Pantelides: some people pocketed money and handed the project to the Chinese! Wait, does ...

Onasagoras

Politics blog: The Prince, Odysseus, and aDIKO

We installed air conditioning, only to realize the obvious: it won’t work until the schools’ electricity infrastructure ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

Genocide

''Some of the strongest members of the EU choose to remain silent while seeing emaciated children, a truly horrific human ...

Alexis Papachelas

Are we sleepwalking?

I often wonder how people who lived our lives in the 1910s or the 1930s felt. Did they experience the same uncertainty and ...

Paris Demetriades

Democracy in decay

As reckless and ruthless as the cold-blooded killing of Charlie Kirk was in the decayed and polarized America of Donald ...

Opinion

Pensions without age limits

We are told that the social insurance system is strictly contributory. You get back what you pay in. Except, of course, ...

Onasagoras

The Cyprus chronicles: AI ministers, strikes, and a high-tech fire hub

Albania, in a bold move to tackle rampant government corruption, has created its very first Minister of Artificial Intelligence, ...

Onasagoras

Papacharalambous, ELAM, and Charley Kirk

Andreas Papacharalambous, former mayor of Strovolos and a close friend of the President, Nikos even introduced his book ...

Onasagoras

Phedon Phedonos, the safe, and the goats

Earlier today, a herd of goats and sheep apparently stormed the highway to Kokkinotrimithia, causing a total traffic meltdown. ...

Opinion

A Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump?

Donald Trump should be given the Nobel Peace Prize - but not quite yet.

Shemaine Bushnell Kyriakides

Once upon a time...in the slowest case in Cyprus

Once upon a time...well, 17 years ago, which in Cyprus is practically ''yesterday'' if you ignore the decades slipping by, ...

Opinion

Is India a 'tariff king'? Not really

There is a widespread but fallacious perception that India's tariffs are inordinately high. There are subjective factors ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

How to fine law-abiding citizens: A Cyprus ''innovation''

What do you call a government that knowingly fines citizens who haven’t broken any laws? The Christodoulides government, ...

Opinion

Saturday night in Nicosia: A tale of two worlds

Saturday night, and Eleftheria Square in Nicosia was bursting with life, migrants from every corner of the globe soaking ...

Opinion

Mediablog: When journalism gets buried by the algorithm

A story involving minors, and all the consequences for their families, was treated like the trailer for a new reality show ...

Paris Demetriades

Tourist gentrification

Abundant Mediterranean sunshine and the enticing sea have, over the years, served as the driving forces behind our tourism ...

Onasagoras

Scandals, short circuits, and citizens paying the price

Whoa! Looks like this week is ending with plenty of suspense. According to Alpha TV, the Anti-Corruption Authority will ...

Onasagoras

The President, the hunters, and the Greens’ arrows

The President feels he’s co-governing with nearly every party except AKEL and ELAM. He even claims he’s fully following ...

Opinion

Consulting the outside world and other matters

The Ministry of Finance, implementing the governance program of Nikos Christodoulides, has put six tax reform bills out ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

I know some history, shall we take a little stroll?

While it would be enough for anyone genuinely interested in learning what happened in Machairas in March 1957, and forming ...

Shemaine Bushnell Kyriakides

Don’t get me wrong…but…

Now don’t get me wrong. I think it’s great that Cyprus is tightening ties with the United States. About time, really. From ...

Paris Demetriades

How much of a priority is tree planting?

Another scorching summer is drawing to a close, at least on the calendar, and while the risk of major fires hasn’t vanished, ...

Opinion

Famine, settler violence, and apartheid

Mr. Anolik’s article is a characteristic example of reality reversal: it silences the crimes documented daily by international ...

Onasagoras

Limassol wildfire ''solved'': Two cigarette butts take the blame

I read a headline claiming the Limassol wildfire saga is officially closed. The culprits? Two pristine cigarette butts, ...

Onasagoras

Politics blog: The Judas dinner, the hotelier’s grip, and the ''coming soon'' reshuffle

Quiz of the Day: Which big hotel owner in Paphos secretly controls the Departments of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment, ...

Opinion

What Hamas did on October 7th was a pogrom

Last week, Kathimerini published an article titled ''Mass murder is a pogrom; Booing tourists is not.'' While the article ...

Onasagoras

Welcome to the ''West Wing'' of Nicosia

I read somewhere that the President won’t reshuffle his Cabinet “under pressure” and that this is “the message leaking from ...

Marina Economides

Politics and timing

Over the past week, supporters of the President of the Republic spoke of unchecked toxicity, of nihilism and blind fanaticism ...

Opinion

There is no quick fix to the Ukrainian question

They did not allow a repeat of last winter’s scene, when President Zelensky was left alone at the mercy of Trump.

Paris Demetriades

Mass murder is a pogrom; Booing tourists is not

The fact that humanity has stooped to counting victims and fatalities with such meticulous precision just to debate whether ...

Onasagoras

The war of the trolls and the President’s kiss

Get ready for the First Nationwide Cyprus War. Of trolls. Political, party, government, and opposition trolls. The armies ...

Onasagoras

Messiahs, mukhtars and missed calls: Cyprus politics as usual

There are five factions inside DISY, Cyprus’ main right-wing party, and our beloved influencer is now expected to herd them ...

Opinion

Setting the record straight: A response to a recent open letter

A recent open letter addressed to me and published in "Politis" makes a series of grave accusations against Israel that ...

Onasagoras

Yelling, crying, and presidential interventions: Thekla’s latest beef

The beef of the week,which apparently involves even the President, is definitely the one between journalist Kousoulos and ...

Onasagoras

Hope dies last (but the ice cream melts first)

At a well-known tavern in Strovolos, coincidentally and symbolically near the Presidential Palace, when the lights went ...

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