You will know that two young journalists were murdered by a gunman in Roanoke, Virginia, the other day. Donald Trump, the famous political scientist and intellectual, told CNN: ” This isn’t a gun problem, this is a mental health problem.” My reply would be, “People who think this is just a mental health problem have …
“Speaking personally, I am attached to the ground. I would prefer to watch the precipitous movements of the damp foot of a duck as it scratches the back of its head by the side of a lake, or the long sparkling drops of water falling slowly from the mouth of a cow as it stands …
“A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford”. ( Christina Stead)
“One cannot assess in terms of cash or exports and imports an imponderable thing like the turn of a lane or an inn or a church tower or a familiar skyline”. John Betjeman, quoted in The Observer
Cyprus was a divided island from the moment of an ill thought- out Greek coup and the immediate arrival of the Turkish army. Ever since, there have been two Turkish army divisions stationed in the Eastern end of the island and a Turkish policy of encouraging poor Turks to migrate there. Once a minority, the …
