Tales from the Coffeeshop: Akel championing freedom of expression. Oh, the irony
I LOVE it when the party that championed the Soviet police state gives lessons in freedom of expression and artistic freedom. Akel was outraged that...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: A Russian recipe for never reaching a settlement
The lavish praise heaped on Mother Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov during his visit to the heatwave island on Tuesday by our awe-struck government, politicians,...
Tales from the coffeeshop: After all the right ones, recklessly foolish moves fuel passports discord
HAVING tried to counter Al Jazeera’s attempts to harm Kyproulla’s reputation, our political leaders seem to have decided to do the job themselves, the message...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Liverpool supporter aside, what’s wrong with Hellenic’s CEO?
ALL MEDIA carried reports on Wednesday and Thursday morning that the CEO of Hellenic Bank, Ioannis Matsis had submitted his resignation. It turned out to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: ‘Carrot and stick’ enters Cyprob vocab
THE VISIT of Greece’s foreign minister Nikos Dendias on Tuesday turned out to a bit of an anti-climax and disappointment for our government which had...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Turks add flesh to slow month for news
IT MUST HAVE come as a mega-relief to the news media that in the August week that traditionally produces very little news, President Erdogan decided...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Sidelined by the motherland
IT TOOK our government some 24 hours before it said anything about the EEZ agreement signed by Greece and Egypt on Thursday, suggesting that Nicosia...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Kyproulla at risk of becoming a motherless child
OUR RULERS, wasted no time turning into little dictators again, after the surge in coronavirus cases, adopting the authoritarian tone as they talked down to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Catch-22, the safe destination tourists can’t visit
WITH France on our side will we finally be able, as the Yanks would say, to kick Turkish ass, metaphorically speaking of course? Or at...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Boffins’ tourism policy is a giant flop
I DON’T remember the last time our establishment was closed for three weeks, but I assure our customers our lockdown had absolutely nothing to do...
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...
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...
