A party is falling apart in plain view, broadcast live to the world. For the simplest reason possible: it’s no longer clear what purpose it serves. What is today’s SYRIZA, the party Tsipras handed over to Kasselakis? What are its aspirations, its vision? What sort of a party is it and what are its prospects? […]

I won’t beat about the bush, because this is no time for baseless reassurances: terrorism is knocking at our door again. A new terrorism perhaps, twenty years after the old one was dismantled. I don’t know if the new crop are really “Koufodinas’ grandchildren.” But we’re definitely faced with the same old bloodthirsty logic that […]

The farmers have forced themselves onto an agenda already fraught with two explosive issues: private universities and same-sex couples

If education reflects a country’s cultural level, I severely doubt ours scrapes a pass. The depressing images of thugs in hoods with clubs, the layabouts passing themselves off as a poor man’s “student movement”, the mindless sound-bites regurgitated ad nauseam for the cameras by various “militant squatters” all bear witness to a mess that can […]

In Germany, Erdoğan's visit on November 17th caused a kerfuffle.