Putting out the fire with petrol

There is a tendency in Cyprus to ignore that resolving social ills are the stitches that enable politics to work. Dogma and theories present wishful thinking of what should be, but reality doesn’t follow straight lines. The new government has been getting its feet under the cabinet table, trying to look busy managing the country and sounding reassuring. Although the President is trying to hatch a plan to snare the Cyprus problem unicorn, there are other parts of our social fabric also in need of repair. Our inability to reunify the...