Stephen Day
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
A LUCKY GENERATION
We oldies were, all those years ago, now weren't we? Of course we were. Driving our parents to distraction, loudly...
Jul 14, 2020
On your knees-or else!
FIRST, let me apologise to fellow columnist Rev Walker, as I’m going to mention what we used to call “sport.” I find it’s best to apologise first these days, just in case I’ve...
Jun 29, 2020
ANARCHY UK 2020
Aren't you glad you live here in TRNC? No looting, no riots, no statues being pulled down or defaced, no national flags being set on fire , no policemen bending one knee (instead of enforcing...
Jun 15, 2020
LONG LIVE THE SEVENTEENIES!
Doom and gloom wherever you look. That's usually this column's job, now everybody is at it. Some "expert"...
May 18, 2020
TIME TO TAKE PRIDE
Don't you get sick of so called "liberal" elements running Britain down? In some ways, such attitudes...
May 4, 2020
A CURE DEADLIER THAN THE VIRUS? Stephen...
I'm afraid it's time to get serious. On the 7th March, under the heading "JUST DON'T PANIC", this...
Apr 28, 2020
The great stitch-up
Back in 2016 it was all very clear. Britain voted for Brexit, not just a little, but by a hell of a lot. In the biggest turn-out of voters in history, 17.4 million people voted to leave (52 per cent)...
Mar 25, 2019
Stuck in the groove
If the various past British High Commissioner’s in Cyprus were a pop band and their Cyprus policy an album, what do you reckon the New Musical Express (NME) would have made of the...
Feb 12, 2019
The wizard of Oz
What links an Aussie with Brexit? “Nothing, thank goodness,” I hear you say. Afraid not. The link is “common sense”, something that seems in short supply these days, particularly at Westminster. Let...
Feb 6, 2019
Soft touch UK
Which is the more pitiable?
Mostly men (along with some women and children), crossing the English Channel in an inflatable rubber ring you wouldn’t trust to carry your child across the local...
Jan 15, 2019
The great betrayal
I watch in horrified amazement as the great and good of the British political establishment determinedly busy themselves with the overturning of the freely expressed will of the British people, especially...
Jan 8, 2019