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
WHERE TO BEGIN?
SOMETIMES it's not that easy for this column to find something to have a good old moan about, (you know, the kind of thing that keeps the Girne branch of the Victor Meldrew Appreciation Society happy)....
Oct 11, 2017
END THIS FARCE NOW
I THINK we are all agreed, aren't we? The Cyprus talks are over? It isn't so much that they ended, as devastatingly crashed into the same stone wall for the umpteenth time (the only difference being...
Oct 11, 2017
Avoiding disaster
AT THE risk of events overtaking this article, here goes. In its time the world has seen some real madmen in power around the globe. Up to now, mankind has survived their madness. Thankfully, the advent...
Oct 11, 2017
Shame on the BBC
IT'S bad enough having to sit through endless BBC news broadcasts that cannot resist prefixing the words "in spite of Brexit" to every piece of recent good news about Britain's economy, but when they...
Sep 4, 2017
NO SACRED COW
THERE are some subjects that are much more controversial than others (Enoch Powell, for instance) but that should not mean they remain unaddressed. So, here goes. There are few institutions in this...
Aug 23, 2017
ENOCH WAS RIGHT
If ever a man has been demonised for simply telling the truth, that man was the late Rt Hon Enoch Powell MP. His famous speech to a Birmingham Conservative Political Centre meeting in April 1968 still...
Aug 6, 2017
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
WE ARE told the Cyprus talks are "over". It would be nice to think so, wouldn't it? They've been "over" so many times in the last 43 years I've lost count. Never in the field of international relations...
Jul 23, 2017