Paschos Mandravelis

We don't know who leaked the 15-page document listing the assets of former SYRIZA chief Stefanos Kasselakis, which was published by the Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper on Tuesday. We're also having trouble understanding the reaction of Manolis Kapnisakis, the director of the ex-party leader's office. “The fact that the presidency of SYRIZA's central committee violated Stefanos Kasselakis' privacy by publishing information about his ‘pothen esches' [an annual declaration of wealth for public figures] is unacceptable and condemnable,” he said. “Such a leak, beyond the ethical dimension, raised serious questions about privacy protection and transparency, principles that the party claims to uphold.”

A young Greek man, aged 26, was murdered in Tel Aviv last week, in yet another bloody display of recycled hatred. Along with Ionas Karussis, terrorists murdered a Georgian national, a woman of Ukrainian origin, and more. From the long list of victims of the terrorist attack a year ago we understand that Israel is now the largest, in proportion to its population, melting pot of cultural traditions.

There is one law that has applied in every society and almost throughout human history. The law of supply and demand. It is simple and does not need legislation. It creates what Austrian economist and academic Friedrich Hayek called “spontaneous order” and solves the problem of scarcity.

The latest amendment to the Building Code aspired to act on the engine of the Greek economy a lot like jumper cables do on a car; the engine in this case being, as always, construction.

For lazy people, inertia is paradise. Antonis Samaras, the former conservative prime minister, is not lazy. His strenuous but ultimately unfruitful effort to pull Greece out of the crisis between 2012 and 2015 is proof of that.

The law on protected witnesses has a history similar to that of the Greek state: It’s laughable.

I wonder whether the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR) really thought about its decision to summon the trappers Snik, Toquel and Rack over their lyrics, which the watchdog described as being “steeped in hate and images of violence”? The issue here is not just about the very reasonable concerns about censorship which have been expressed in this newspaper and on other platforms with regard to this decision. It is also about the violation of the artists' privacy. To explain…

Former prime minister Antonis Samaras did not avoid the well-trodden path that I pointed out a year ago in Kathimerini: “The refrain of every one of his statements, every one of his speeches, every one of his interviews is ‘And it turned out that I was right.'”

Strikes are a big thing. So big, indeed, that they become the top news item in the media in all healthy democracies. And the rarer a mass mobilization is, the greater its impact.

Wednesday's TV debate between the candidates for the new SYRIZA leader did not garner the same attention as the corresponding debate held by PASOK, nor did it demonstrate the same level of seriousness.