Stephen Day

ste@ct.com

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

GO FOR RECOGNITION

I’M A PATIENT man, so waiting is no great hardship to me. If it’s worth having, it’s worth waiting for, but you don’t expect to be waiting forever, now do you? That is unless...

Oct 7, 2020

BREXIT BRINKMANSHIP?

Brexit is back in the headlines (it never actually went away, it was just drowned in a tidal wave of Covid panic).

So, what great Brexit crime has Boris committed, to bring two political “blasts...

Sep 23, 2020

DEAR HIGH COMMISSIONER

Your Excellency,

I write to you in this open letter with the greatest respect for both yourself and the office you hold, coupled with a great sadness that such failures in UK's...

Sep 7, 2020

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BRITISH?

For decades the UK has pursued social policies that have greatly improved life. Health, education, social benefits, employment rights, etc. No doubt about it and all welcome. The problem is that things...

Aug 10, 2020

TIME FOR UNITY

There has been no civil war, tearing the island apart and destroying the lives of innocents on both sides of the divide, since the Turkish intervention in 1974. That blessing has come at a heavy price,...

Jul 29, 2020