Tales from the Coffeeshop: Nik the First refusing to bow out gracefully
TWO-AND-A-HALF years may have passed since he lost his power and glory, as well as the undeserved public respect he enjoyed because of his position rather than for his moral ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Why was someone ignorant of firefighting appointed its leader?
WE HAVE entered the slow season for news as all the great and the good have gone on holiday. The main news story, as I write this, is that it ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Burned homes, blazing generosity
HAVING failed to quieten the widespread public criticism of his government for its perceived inept firefighting policies with his pained looks and heart-felt apologetic words, Prezniktwo decided the only way ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Not even Prezniktwo can put a positive spin on this one
YOU ALMOST felt sorry for Prezniktwo, seeing his dazed and confused look when he arrived at the crisis centre set up in Ayios Amvrosios to deal with wildfire in the ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Remarkable politicians have not lost us more of the island
TODAY marks the 51st anniversary of the Turkish invasion. Within a month, the invasion army had taken control of 40 per cent of the Cyprus Republic’s territory and kicked out ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Justice? Never heard of her
ONLY members of the simpletons’ club would have thought there was a one-in-a-million chance that the deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides would have heeded calls for his resignation and stepped down ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Public enemy number one status the result of a police set up?
WHEN reports appeared a few weeks ago about a police raid on the home of a senior prison warden which uncovered a large amount of graded state documents, that should ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Kyproulla’s statesman gets lost in translation
PREZNIKTWO’S delusions of world statesmanship were dealt a vicious blow (thankfully it was not fatal, and some delusions survived) last weekend when Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei suggested ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Don’t panic, Kyproulla will save the day
I HAVE to say that what is going on in our region is rather scary. From some parts of Kyproulla apparently you could see the missiles flying in the direction ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Could Odysseas finally attain martyrdom?
THE DECISION to investigate the sacked auditor-general Odysseas for alleged contempt of court came as a major surprise, considering charges of contempt are very rare indeed.
Although my memory is ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Putin’s useful idiot Fidias
ON COMPLETING a year in the European Parliament, MEP and TikToker Fidias Panayiotou appears to have gained promotion from the role of entertaining village idiot to that of tedious useful ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Self-congratulatory frenzy as EU recognises its Cyprob role
WE WERE subjected to a new bout of hysterical, government self-congratulation, just few weeks after the last one, when the office of the president of the European Commission announced that ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Dictatorship of the desk job
THE PREZ, the House Prezita, party leaders and a host of ministers were at Pasydy’s annual congress on Tuesday to pay their respects to our parasitic labour aristocracy and ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Old foes come back to haunt us
WHILE Preznikone was appearing before the investigative committee set up by Anti-Corruption Authority dismantling, in his words, fake news and slander, a foe from the past also put the boot ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Water diplomacy means Cyprus won’t go thirsty
THE ORGY of self-congratulation in which the government engaged because the United Arab Emirates kindly offered to send us some mobile desalination units to help us avoid the looming water ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Claws are out for Cyprus’ very own Princess Di
THE PICTURE of House president Annita Demetriou squatting in a saintly pose by the grave of an Eoka hero on April 1 and staring forlornly ahead was iconic political kitsch. It ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: If you want to meet Cyprus president, just block the highway
KYPROULLA will not contribute any troops to a European task force that would maintain the peace in Ukraine in the very unlikely event that Russia agreed to a ceasefire deal, ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: President Christodoulides, the smartest kid in the classroom
THE MORE I see Prezniktwo in action the more he reminds me of an insecure schoolkid constantly seeking the approval and praise of the grown-ups by boasting about his perfect ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The endless farce of the multiple pension scandal
THE FARCE about the multiple pensions seems set to play and play, with the House finance committee discussing the matter inconclusively every Monday, although deputies are determined to introduce a ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Is Geneva meeting a threat to Cyprus talks deadlock?
DESPITE his burning desire to secure resumption of the talks, Prezniktwo is doing his best to ensure that the UN does not come up with any silly idea for bridging ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Who needs brains when we have bureaucracy?
I HOPE that we have not disappointed all those people who had thought our establishment had closed down and that Patroclos had gone into retirement so he could concentrate on ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: End of the road for Cyprus’ darling ‘Gold Bar Bob’
KYPROULLA was back in the international news last week but not under its new brand as a squeaky-clean regional pillar of safety and security, but as the base of the ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Is the joke now on President Christodoulides?
WHAT a joker Prezniktwo is turning out to be. His best prank so far, which he has been staging for more than a year, had the Cyprob at its centre ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Government fall-guy gets cemented in scandal
IF HE WAS not such a union-pandering communist, we could have felt a bit of sympathy for Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou, after he was hung out to dry by Prezniktwo, ...