You made a complete mess of foot-and-mouth — and now you have the nerve to ask for explanations

There is a pattern in this state. A three-part script that rolls out in every crisis, every disaster: incompetence, slapdash planning, chronic mismanagement. Now that foot-and-mouth disease is choking one livestock unit after another in Larnaca, the state is once again proving it has learnt precisely nothing. Crisis management does not begin when the evening […]

By Giorgos Kallinikou