Rant of the day

ELECTRIC CARS I had my first ride in an electric car today. My sister-in-law's boyfriend has just bought one, a Renault, and he took u...

ENTREPRENEURSHIP Everybody accepts that economic growth is the only sure way out of the financial mess that most developed countries are s...

SLEEPING HABITS Both my sons are at home at the moment. Not that I am seeing much of them. Today, a holiday, I was up around 8.30 am. The ...

EASTER Easter is the most important festival in Christianity. Without the crucifixion and - especially - the resurrection of Jesus, much o...

FILMS ABOUT THE ELDERLY An interesting cinematic development is the increasing number of films that deal with the elderly. The Iron Lady, ...

DEPOSIT INSURANCE (3) Plan A to save Cyprus' finances and offshore banking business model was to spread the pain "thinly"; e...

SERGEI KRIKALYEV Sergei Krikalyev was a Soviet cosmonaut who went up to the Mir space station in May 1991. At the end of the year he was s...