today

RAUF DENKTASH once famously said that the only true Cypriot was the donkey, the others were Greeks and Turks.

The real Cypriot it turns out is a mouse, Mus cypriacus. I like mice. There is one which lives next door who sometimes comes round to pay a visit. But next door they have a cat. I hope to capture the mouse soon in a mouse-safe trap and then release it in a nearby park

Would that the EU could solve its problems so easily, and my story is perhaps a warning not to let more rats and cats into the EU yet.