Search Results for: Nicholas Karides
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Europe
Cyprus media coverage of the war in Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, marking the start of the biggest war in Europe…
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Asia
The 12-year Hitch
Christopher Hitchens, the British born American journalist and writer, died exactly 12 years ago today, on 15 December 2011, aged…
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Features
Large Language Mimicry
The complexity and hype surrounding Large Language Models make it difficult to disentangle the arguments about generative AI’s potential harms.…
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Analysis
Single Source Sabotage
It was painful to have to doubt Seymour Hersh’s explosive Substack story1 last month in which he claimed that back in…
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Analysis
The elephant in the ward
A week after the death of Queen Elizabeth in September, India replaced Britain as the world’s fifth-largest economy1. Nicholas Karides…
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Culture
Jim, John, Bjorn and the GOAT
I doubt I fully appreciated the trouble my father had gone into to secure my first ever Centre Court ticket…
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Books
Post Fact Figments
As if the collective Cypriot mind didn’t have enough trouble distinguishing myth from historical reality, along comes Andreas Hadjikyriacos with…
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Analysis
Belling the Cats
In his seminal 1999 book What are Journalists For? Nicholas Karides NYU professor Jay Rosen pointed to a plaque at the…
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Europe
Yanis at the traffic lights
Wanting to thank a friend recently I got her Kati Marton’s The Chancellor1 an insightful and well researched account of Angela Merkel’s…
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Analysis
Pandora’s Vox
“To think how far we have come” boasted a tweet from Cyprus last month “…to be servicing Yacht-A @LimassolMarina” referring…
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Arts & Culture
No Room For Decency
It is as much about the frenzy that follows the gasping anticipation as a beautifully struck free-kick curls into the…
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Arts & Culture
The Late Career Switch
Lucy Kellaway had a dream job. Her self-proclaimed title was Chief Bullshit Correspondent for the Financial Times though in polite company she’d…
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Analysis
De-Erdoganisation
The Taliban warned that despite ‘historic, cultural and religious bonds with the Muslim people of Turkey’, they would view such…
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Analysis
Hell is patient
No logo, no photo or cartoon, just a traumatized man’s determined statement set in red letters: “Still Hate Thatcher”. Nicholas…
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Features
AI in the sky
Music geeks have settled on the likelihood that Parsons’ co-writer Eric Woolfson, a keen gambler who spent a lot of…
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Elections
Parliamentary Elections – Cyprus – 30 May 2021
Cyprus’ ruling center-right Democratic Rally DISY remained the strongest political force in Sunday’s parliamentary election but lost ground – though…
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