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...
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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....
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Slips of the tongue and hate campaign dog government
AS IF IT were not bad enough that they had sent their Yavuz drillship into offshore block 8, the drilling rights of which have been...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Suddenly we’re all Libyan experts now
TWO MONTHS ago, if you asked an ordinary Cypriot who Khalifa Haftar was, he may have told you it was a brand of Lebanese baklava...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Flooded with water and good news
THE NEW decade could not have started any better for the good people of Kyproulla. The unprecedented, unrelenting downpours may have caused some flooding, damage...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: A PR disaster of nuclear proportions
WHO WOULD have thought that our authorities’ monumental bungling of a rape claim case would have turned into a international PR disaster of nuclear proportions...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Israel is proving to be a fickle ally
THE GREAT and the good of our sun-drenched island received a terrible fright at the start of the week after reading reports from Israel suggesting...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Dialogue for the sake of dialogue
STATE hospital doctors’ union Pasyki was “forced to stage the three-hour work stoppage on Friday as a cry of anguish,” said the perennially angry union...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Doing a lot to get nowhere fast
BOOSTED by the success of the informal dinner with the UNSG in Berlin, which received rave reviews, Prez Nik’s government made another revelation to illustrate...
Nik directed the word-perfect Cyprob pantomime
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ declared intention to join in the Cyprus peace process pantomime was sincere as the airy-fairy statement that followed the ‘informal’ dinner...
A tough week for Nik and a dinner in Berlin he might not digest
NOTHING seems to be going well for Prez Nik these days. Just when the noise surrounding the passports business had died down, the Israeli spy...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: When Averof Hood went after the banks
ALTHOUGH the assault on the banks began at the legislature on Wednesday, the main offensive was launched on Friday by Disy chief Averof Neophytou in...
