Tales from the Coffeeshop: Wanted – a Turk loving UN whipping boy
OUR ESTABLISHMENT will not claim any kudos for predicting the return of the police state as anyone with half a brain would have seen it...
Tales from the Coffeeshop
Tales from the coffeeshop: Myths, narratives and Turkish intransigence
IT WAS extremely difficult to understand why Phil made such a big fuss about publishing the minutes of meetings held in Crans Montana four and...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Our amazing transformation into a nation of tree-huggers
I WOULD never have thought that the majority of we Cypriots are suppressed eco warriors deeply concerned about climate crisis and prepared to make big...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Gesy lynch mob determined to protect sacred cow
MAYBE I have missed something or there is some ethical point I am not aware of but the Edek leader Dr Sizo’s campaign for changing...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Comrades with short memories are rising up
THIS WAS written before the proletarian masses were taken to the presidential palace, from all over Kyproulla in buses hired by Akel to demand the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: In hard times, massive potato brings light relief
CONGRATS to Xylophagou mayor Georgios Tasou and his municipal council for their publicity stunt with the big dick potato (BDP), of the Spunta variety, they...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The oldest trick in the presidential book
I WONDER whether Prez Nik ever gets tired of issuing denials about his involvement in his law office’s dealings with mega-rich clients that feature in...
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...
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...