“What we have here is a failure to communicate.

George Carlin was right. You can't trust government.

What comes to mind watching and listening to Greek officials try to explain why a deadly head-on train crash that killed 57 people – most of them students returning from Athens to Thessaloniki after the annual Carnival celebration – is that Ralph Kramden was the Minister of Silly Talks.

Little did the riders on Greece's filthy, graffiti-covered frequently late antiquated trains know they were putting their lives in someone else's dirty hands and part of a game of chicken with oncoming traffic, until the inevitable tragedy.

He came into office in 2013 with Cyprus' banks teetering, the economy near collapse, promising to fix everything, to reunify the island and not to let banks confiscate people's life savings.

Mr. Scaros reporting on Jan 6 Committee's findings that there was an overkill of redundancy is a point well taken, meaning that too many trees were wasted by the 845 page documentations.

Unless the secret talks that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is said to have conducted with British Museum Chairman George Osborne result in the outright return of the stolen Parthenon Marbles – and ownership – the Greek leader will face substantial criticism, similar to what hit the Looney Left SYRIZA when it gave away the name Macedonia to what became North Macedonia.

There's so much dirty money on Cyprus it's a wonder the island doesn't sink, but everyone keeps pretending there isn't but knows that there is and the game is to keep it coming while pretending that it isn't.

The next time you see a Greek politician at a souvlaki stand, unless it's for a photo opportunity so they can pretend to know what the hoi polloi eat for a budget lunch – or dinner – it will be the first, unless there's caviar mixed in.

I spent three months in the U.