One of the pleasures, well dubious pleasures, of travelling as much as we do is to take breaks from the more frustrating political situations as we trade them in for new, and equally enraging fiascos in other venues. Not that anything is truly ever left behind in the days of the internet. Some political dilemmas are simply overwhelming, and it’s impossible not to be drawn in to the self-inflicted injuries of the current American impasse or the slow motion inevitability of the Brexit disaster. And the Middle East is a constant running sore.
Then there was the Canadian election of 2006 when we had our ballots couriered to Cyprus and back to Canada. But indignation over Sioux Lookout council decisions does fade as we observe, with gratitude falling a little short of schadenfreude at our political detachment, the scene in Cyprus. And this quite apart from the endless and futile negotiations over the reunification of North and South. So in the Cyprus Mail, the Cypriot Attorney General’s brother makes accusations in some astonishing detail of the incestuous relationship between the Supreme Court and the banks, saying “There is not a single supreme court judge who does not have a child at the law office that promotes the banks’ interests,” and following up with a very long list of names and relationships, adding that this was “the reason Cyprus was convicted by the European Court of Human Rights in January last year for lack of impartiality of the Supreme Court”. Truly shocking even in the tribal system that Cyprus enjoys.
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