Tales from the Coffeeshop

I COULD not believe the air of superiority and disdain with which Finance Minister Makis Keravnos responded to the suggestion by poor Ethnarch Junior, his party boss, that he resign ...

ALL KYPROULLA is laughing and mocking the former Disy big-wig and deputy Nikos Tornaritis for accepting the most ludicrous post ever thought up by a Prez to reward one of ...

ETHNARCH Junior is going through a rather difficult period as he is having difficulty controlling some of his top dogs who want the party to announce its support for Nik ...

WHO would have thought that the Prez of our tiny Republic would be driven around in an armoured limousine that cost a whopping €595,000?   This is a big step-up from the ...

RETIREMENT is something that Nik I is just not comfortable with. He just refuses to accept that he no longer has a role to play and keeps finding excuses to ...

THE PATRIOTIC forces scored another resounding victory for the national cause a few days ago when they succeeded in seeing off the threat posed to our national survival by a ...

CAN WE believe a word Prezniktwo ever says? In an interview, broadcasted by ANT1 on Monday night, he said that he would decide whether to seek re-election in 2027. And this ...

WARNING: If you are bored of the Cyprob, stop reading now. PREZNIKTWO was in defiant mood at the presidential place on Monday evening in his speech to mark the 52nd ...

THE INHUMANITY the Paphos authorities have shown in the treatment of the British father, whose three-year-old son was killed, after falling out of a fourth-floor hotel window in Paphos last ...

A FEW weeks ago our establishment had mentioned that the Prez would be looking for job to give the deputy minister of European Affairs, Marilena Raouna, whose contract would expire ...

WHO would have thought it would ever have been possible for the Nik II government to have a big international meeting on the sunshine isle and treat it as a ...

NIK I was back in the spotlight on Tuesday reliving the good old days when he was Kyproulla’s ex officio centre of attention. The last time he had so ...

THE REPORT about the Mafia State was finally released on Tuesday by the Anti-Corruption Authority, which turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. After two years of work, ...

THERE was a time, some years ago, when a visit by a UN envoy to Kyproulla, with the aim of kicking some life into the Cyprob, would be big news, ...

CONGRATS to Disy boss, Annita Demetriou for securing a second stint as House Prezita and showing all the men, who privately dismissed her as ‘Barbie’ and another ‘clueless blonde’, that ...

UNFORTUNATELY, the election results were disappointingly predictable and the instability that the government, Annita, Junior and Phil’s hacks were terrified of did not happen. The two big parties both ...

WHAT a relief that the elections will be over this evening and from tomorrow I will not have to see the face of big-shot candidate George Pamborides staring at me ...

REGULARS will know that our establishment was never a fan of Odysseas Michaelides, not even in the days when his popularity was sky-high, when the media celebrated him like a ...

ALTHOUGH, we are still a month away from the parliamentary elections, wherever you look in Nicosia’s streets there are billboards, with the photoshopped faces of candidates, after our vote. ...

THE COFFEESHOP was closed for Easter when Politis published the story about Black Cube, the Israeli company which was behind the production of the video in which associates of the ...

WHAT could a poor weekly columnist write as click-bait when in the last few days, the news was dominated by sensational allegations about corrupt judges, child rape, illegitimate children, big ...

ANYONE who watched the interview of MEP Fidias Panayiotou – now leader of the Direct Democracy of Cyprus party – with the over-the-hill hack Yiannis Kareklas on Sigma TV would no longer ...

PREZNIKTWO has embraced a new cause that is certain to win him many brownie points and give his flagging approval ratings a much-needed boost. He will raise the issue of ...

THE QUESTION anyone with half a brain asks, is why our authorities had not started vaccinating sheep, goats and cows when the outbreak of foot and mouth disease was reported ...