Stephen Day
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND
DON’T you just love a good fairy tale? You do? OK, here goes: “Once upon a time, in the land of Cloud Cuckoo, there lived a remote community of mystics, who were convinced that far, far...
Apr 14, 2021
WE GOT IT RIGHT
IS THERE anyone out there who still believes the UK should have never left the EU? Are there still Turkish Cypriots who believe their salvation lies in accepting a clammy Brussels embrace? The answer...
Mar 30, 2021
THE ‘ME, ME, ME’ SHOW
OK, LET’S get one thing straight. I admit it. I’m an avowed, unapologetic Royalist – to the core. There’s as much chance of me wanting a politician to be elected British head...
Mar 15, 2021
OUR FIGHT TOO
Picture the scene. A group of UK civil servants have just entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Whitehall, just prior to Dominic Raab’s recent visit to Cyprus. They have climbed the...
Mar 8, 2021
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
THESE days, finding something to smile about is as likely as looking in your bathroom mirror and seeing the handsome brute you used to be smiling back at you, especially in the morning. For example,...
Feb 15, 2021
Is the UK dying?
I remain a Conservative and Unionist to this day. I’m proudly a Yorkshire man and very aware of my Englishness, but the defining characteristic of what I believe myself to be, is British. Very...
Feb 1, 2021
A CHANGING WORLD
SOMETIMES, unexpected events conspire to impact negatively on our lives. Such an experience can come and go, with little or no lasting consequence, or it can change our world forever, even if we don’t...
Jan 18, 2021
WILL IT LAST?
OVER the last two weeks I became almost speechless (my reader probably counts that as a blessing) as with eye-popping, jaw-dropping incredulity, I witnessed the failure of the TRNC’s political...
Dec 14, 2020
WHISTLING DIXIE!
I NEVER cease to be amazed at the bizarre nature of much of what we call “news” these days. It isn’t so much that I disagree with many of the attitudes it reflects, but rather that...
Dec 8, 2020
THE GREAT CONTRAST
Indeed, in terms of both controlling the pandemic and allowing normal life to go on, the TRNC appears to have got the balance right. OK, I accept that the borders of a small country like this, with...
Nov 16, 2020
‘LA REIGN LA VOTE’
GIVEN the events of the last few months, I thought a little light relief was in order. Picture the UK scene. Some grinning, unwelcome, rosette-wearing nuisance, half-drowned by the heaviest Manchester...
Nov 2, 2020
SLOW DEATH OF FREEDOM
WHEN I look at today’s Britain, everything I was brought up to honour seems to be going through a strangulated death throe. It breaks my heart. When in the UK, I am happiest in those small communities...
Oct 19, 2020