Tales from the Coffeeshop: The art of diplomacy for public consumption
YOU COULD not help but share the genuine anguish of Dr Eleni Theocharous about our weakened defences, “ at a time when Cyprus is being...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Cyprob back with a vengeance
OUR RULERS were collectively outraged last weekend seeing pictures of youngsters at the beachside Nava Bar in Protaras failing to observe social distancing rules and...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Historic day for lazy, unproductive medics
THE ‘HISTORIC DAY’ on which Gesy entered its second phase turned into an orgy of self-congratulation for meeting the June 1 deadline while the health...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Cyprob tries to come out of lockdown
IT WAS BACK briefly on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, but, sadly it did not last. I refer to our dear Kypriako (Cyprob), which had...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Treating kids as adults a recipe for disaster
IT TOOK two months of horse-trading and pandering to the opposition parties for the government to finally realise that consensus politics is a chimera in...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Moaning spreading quicker than the coronavirus
THE AMOUNT of moaning we have been subjected to from teachers and their teenage proteges in the last week because some of them had to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Time for greed and profit to reclaim their crowns
THE COMMIES of Akel and the social media experts uncovered a new enemy of the people this week – the Federation of Employers and Industrialists,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Sad day for parasites as corona vacation ends
WELL what a relief that from Monday those who are stuck at home because they belong to a vulnerable group or work in a place...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Who to thank for coronavirus-lite experience with so many stars?
SHOULD we thank the Lord that the invisible enemy was not as savage in Kyproulla as it had been in other countries and we are...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Hideous parasites go out of their way to make us hate them
IT WAS just as well the Supreme Court upheld the appeal of the attorney-general against last year’s administrative court decision which ruled that the cuts...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Generalissimos and naughty kids
THE CORONAVIRUS has turned a few of our ministers into generalissimos, talking down to the undisciplined and irresponsible populace that is putting the nation at...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: welcome to the world of Big Brother
OUR CIVIL liberties that are being eroded in the name of the war against the invisible enemy were further restricted last Monday when Prez Nik...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Virus fears extra-high among the chronically lazy
I HAVE never been a great socialiser and the older I get the more reclusive I become, something my friends would testify to, given the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Coronavirus diplomacy – enough is never enough
YOU CAN always rely on our political parties to turn even a very serious matter like the spreading of the coronavirus into an excuse for...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: How ironic to see Cypriot police keeping Cypriots apart
AFTER the fascists of Elam, the fascist tendency of the Apoel supporters club came out in full support of Prez Nik’s decision to protect the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Half-baked half measures against virus don’t add up
THE TEMPORARY closing of four checkpoints by our government, in order to protect us from the spread of the coronavirus, came with an official certification...
Tales from the coffeeshop: The army and making meaningless nonsense sound serious
IT CAME as a major surprise to find out that the institution most trusted by Greek Cypriots, according to the latest Eurobarometer, is the army,...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Show trials and martyrs Edek style
EDEK chief Dr Marinos Sizopoulos’ leadership style has always displayed mild Stalinist tendencies, but because he was born in the wrong place at the wrong...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Bad loans and non-performing MPs
MALE chauvinism may be in decline in this remote corner of the EU, but the House of Representatives still flies the flag, from time to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Does the wheeler-dealer Prez of the Rep have no pride?
PREZ NIK’s wheeler-dealer skills were presented in all their glory by the auditor-general Odysseas’ investigation into his use of private jets for his travels abroad....
