By William J. Furney If we do end up destroying our planet — next month’s climate talking-shop in Scotland is
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It’s the Multiverse We Want Answers To, Not a Metaverse
By William J. Furney If we do end up destroying our planet — next month’s climate talking-shop in Scotland is hardly likely to arrest the devastating change under way, as
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Old Wounds Fester in Cyprus, Home to World’s Last Divided Capital
By William J. Furney Only the forenames of some people interviewed for this article have been used, to protect their identity in a politically sensitive place. It’s midnight on the
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The Dictatorship of Wokeism and Cancel Culture
By William J. Furney It’s a crisp Saturday morning in claustrophobic Central Athens and as I run past street stalls setting up for the day alongside buildings festooned in loud
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After Covid, An American Invasion of a Greek Party Island
By William J. Furney “Are all y’all bonding over there?” the bearded, hulking figure of an African-American bellows into his phone as I walk past him in a narrow and
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The Butchers of Nicosia
LETTER FROM CYPRUS By William J. Furney In the “ghetto” of Nicosia, as my local friend Alexandros describes it, there are many meat shops and barbers, all within a stone’s
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Grow Up! Chides Boris, as World Faces Climate Apocalypse
By William J. Furney His reference to a frog puppet may not exactly have been ribbiting, but Boris Johnson surely sent many people hopping mad with his lecture at the
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In Tourism-Devastated Bali, and Crowdfunding Your Way Out of Covid
SPECIAL REPORT By William J. Furney Bali’s main tourism industry was wiped out by Islamic terrorists’ bombs nearly two decades ago, but those repeated Al Qaeda-inspired attacks on tourists partying
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Blowing Your Top in the Canary Islands
By William J. Furney Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez decided to postpone his trip to the UN General Assembly in New York and head to the Canary Islands, the seven-isle
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The Best Little Shop in the World
By William J. Furney The only store in the tiny village in Lanzarote I’ve been staying in for the last few weeks has little on its shelves. And what’s there
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Lost, and Sadly Found, Amid the Cactus Fields of Macaronesia
By William J. Furney Resources are scarce on these Macaronesian islands. There is no rain, and life — plant and animal — clings on, desperately hoping for some kind of
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