Tales from the Coffeeshop: How kebabs trumped Covid restrictions
THE TINY probability of Kyproulla experiencing a shortage of pork for a few days spurred the government into emergency action, Prez Nik shunning the idea...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Martial law and the olive pickers
Martial law has arrived – police road-blocks, curfews, documentation to drive in and out of the 21st century leper colonies of Paphos and Limassol (and...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The EU Sherpa and spoof announcements
I WOULD like to apologise to the royal couple and particularly the wife of our foreign minister for referring to her as Mrs Philippa Christodoulides...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: members of the Branch Covidian cult are everywhere
I AM NO virologist, epidemiologist or scientist of any type, but I think I am still qualified, as a member of the human race with...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: All he wants is to be loved
PREZ NIK always gave the impression that he was a thick-skinned politician, one that did not care what was being said about him and could...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Mass hysteria as public disservice well rewarded
I ALMOST felt sorry for our disgraced former House president Demetris Syllouris the way he became the most hated and reviled man in Kyproulla, the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Varosha and the five stages of grief
IS THERE anything that hasn’t been already written, said or shouted about Famagusta over the past 46 years? Probably not, but for the last three...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Prez Nik’s mission impossible
IF YOU can have football matches without spectators, in the age of Covid-19, you can also have a military parade on Independence Day for the...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Hopes of being a world power dashed, Cyprus becomes a nuisance
THIS WEEK when our Foreign Minister Nicos Chirstodoulides was playing hard-ball over sanctions at the EU foreign affairs council I was reminded of the wonderful...
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...
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...
