Tales from the Coffeeshop: Cyprob not the only pressing issue in the world today
ALL DAY on Friday CyBC radio news played the story that “powerful messages about the Cyprus problem are expected to be sent by the President...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Offending the Gods of scientific wisdom
I MAKE a point of not following the Twitter accounts of our self-important scientists, who have become A-list celebrities of the Covid era, but a...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Our madhouse is already gearing up for elections
PRESIDENTIAL elections might still be 16-plus months away, but some candidates have expressed an interest in standing, without being too definite about it. These are...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The latest entry in the Book of Cyprob Fantasy
SADLY, it does not look like we will be returning to the constitution of 1960 any time soon, Prez Nik’s zealous and earnest initiative failing...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Meaningless decision provokes both communities
THE REVOKING of the passports of 14 ‘officials’ of the pseudo state by the council of ministers was a gloriously meaningless decision that was enthusiastically...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: From triumphs to the Taliban
WARNING: if you are turned off by the Cyprob I suggest you stop reading now, because today’s shop is exclusively Cyproblematic. I apologise for this,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Most of us are Akelites without even realising it
BEFORE our establishment had a chance to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Akel, the comrades came up with another party anniversary. August 15, a party...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Mixed results from having employees as Covid enforcers
THE POLICE state has been showing its muscle. In the 24 hours up until Saturday morning, the cops had carried out 5,935 checks reporting 30...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The unbearable moralising of vaxxers, anti-vaxxers and politicians
AT LEAST the streets are still SafePass-free zones, but for how much longer is anyone’s guess. For now, we will not need a safe pass...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Threat of UN words and free speech
DÉJÀ VU. We appeared to have engaged in some time travel in the last week and returned to the eighties when high anxiety gripped the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Policed by bar staff
OUR ESTABLISHMENT has put up the price of all our items in order to pay for the muscle we have hired to check that customers...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Covid Project Fear salesmen are back
The prophets of doom and the Project Fear salesmen, who had mercifully disappeared from view for about a month, made a comeback in the last...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Rejection is all the rage
YOU ALMOST felt sorry for Prez Nik after the week he has just had. The number of public rejections he suffered would have forced lesser...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Sick and tasteless days of Covid, elections
CONGRATULATIONS to Annita Demetriou for becoming not only the first woman to become president of the House but also the first Disy deputy. I do...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The scramble for a largely worthless post
BY FAR the most irritatingly tedious part of a parliamentary election is the subsequent horse-trading of the political parties over who to elect House president....
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Prez Nik’s election confusion
THE ELECTION campaign may have legally ended at midnight on Friday, but some party leaders continued with some light campaigning on Saturday. It was a...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Ensuring tomorrow never comes
IT WAS INEVITABLE that a small part of Kyproulla would be affected by the fighting between our strategic ally Israel and our former buddies in...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Thank the elections for café society freedoms
A RECORD 658 candidates from 15 parties/groupings will be contesting the 56 parliamentary seats up for grabs in the elections in a fortnight. Of these,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: There’s nothing more permanent than the temporary
THERE is an expression that officials use to highlight the lunacy of executive decisions that are provisional, as a way of reassuring affected parties that...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The lockdown that took everyone by surprise
EVERYONE has been wondering how and why the government decided to impose a lockdown for two weeks starting last Monday, despite giving assurances before the...