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
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...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: They may as well lock us up and throw away the key
IN KEEPING with the traditions of authoritarianism, supreme leader Prez Nik overruled his government’s decree prohibiting people from attending church services during Holy Week just...
Tales from the coffeeshop: The Pfizer elite – vaccination the latest status symbol
IF HE DID not have the golden passports to bang on about every day or his public hero-worship of Odysseas to signal his virtue, Ethnarch...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Covid police state comes unstuck
A WEEK rarely goes by without the auditor-general Odysseas, Kyproulla’s self-proclaimed Elliot Ness, featuring in the news. He is second only to Prez Nik in...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Hysteria reaches new heights over semantics
LACK of perspective and a sense of proportion have always marked the way the drama queen politicians of Kyproulla view the world but they surpassed...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Godlike scientific dream team show human frailty
WE SHOULD have expected that the champions of school closures would suddenly become the biggest critics of the school closures. It turned out that the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Someone needs to take a reality pill
IF THERE was anyone who thought that Prez Nik’s impassioned declarations of support for the bizonal, bicommunal federation, even without political equality, and for the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Parents have been duped into thinking education is a priority
JUST when you thought the Nik government’s popularity could not fall any lower it took another nose-dive on Friday when the Covid generalissimo and health...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: El Diablo bedevils God-fearing Kyproulla
RELIGIOUS fanatics were incensed by the lyrics of our Eurovision song, El Diablo, and directed their self-righteous rage at the CyBC which had selected such...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Hurray! Cyprob show scheduled to resume
AFTER a three-and-a-half year break the Cyprob show is scheduled to resume, with newspapers full of speculation about its premiere in a venue in some...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Avoiding responsibility, what we always do best
THE DEMO against corruption and the Covid restrictions that took place in Nicosia on Saturday afternoon was crushed by the cops, as you would expect...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: A gift for splitting hairs and spinning gestures
PREZ Nik had his big day in front of the investigative committee on Tuesday, pleading ignorance to questions that he did not want to answer....
Tales from the Coffeshop: Prez Nik doth protest too much
EVERYTHING he does to wriggle out of the problems he has created for himself ends up causing him more trouble. He could have lost his...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: In grip of lockdown, police state thriving
EVERY morning the police issue a report proudly informing us how many people have been fined for committing heinous crimes such as not wearing a...