Tales from the Coffeeshop
HAVING sweet-talked his way into the hearts of as many voters as he could, on Thursday he finally decided the time was right to come...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Anti-British sentiment, like the tourists, is back
MY FRIEND who called to ask whether he was going mad or the world around him had gone mad was given a scientific answer to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: ‘Russia is just a victim of Western conspiracies’
A FRIEND, I had not heard from for months called me on Thursday saying he needed psychological support, because “I do not know if I...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Presidential candidates for all seasons
PEOPLE with a brain, the minority among the voters, must have breathed a collective sigh of relief on hearing that the efforts for a Diko-Akel...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Supporters of democrats vindicated by Zelenskiy speech
AS FAR as woefully pathetic excuses go, the one given by the comrades of Akel for not attending President Zelenskiy’s address of the special session...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Tale upon tale of ordinary Kyproulla madness
PRESIDENT of the ECB, Christine Lagarde got the full red-carpet treatment on her arrival in the regional centre of disappearing banks when she hooked up...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Cue the ribbon of silent defiance
NONE of our courageous politicians has yet broken the vow of silence they took with regard to the unveiled threats issued by Mother Russia’s ambassador...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: I can’t believe it’s silence that greeted outspoken ambassador
OUR POLITICIANS suffered a collective loss of their courage and speech faculty this week after President Putin’s henchman in Kyproulla, Ambassador Stan Osadchiy issued his...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: CyBC losing its shine as Russian mouthpiece
STATE broadcaster, CyBC, has always sounded like a subsidiary channel of Russia Today, featuring glowing reports about Moscow’s action and, as a matter of policy,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Mother Russia loses her shine in Kyproulla
A FEW days was all that was needed for Moscow to lose the tight hold it had over Kyproulla for six decades, as the natives,...