Tales from the Coffeeshop: What a relief our country is in capable hands
ALTHOUGH our establishment had never been a big fan of our newly-elected prez, its bored members decided that Nikos II should be given a chance...
Tales from the Coffeeshop
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Beautiful words are not enough
HAS NOBODY informed Nikos Christodoulides that the election campaign is over and that he should stop behaving like a presidential candidate and act like the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Nikos II’s new cabinet – promises kept, promises broken
THE COMRADES of Akel have never been renowned for their sense of humour, but their description of the council of ministers announced on Monday night...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Disy election a contest of good looks and not saying anything
DISAPPOINTED that the Disy leadership election will not be contested by the good, the bad and the ugly, as had been widely expected, the bad...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The crowning of Nikos the Second
THE CANDIDATE our establishment did not endorse, won last Sunday’s run-off election by a relatively comfortable margin of 15,000 votes and in 10 days will...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry
IN THE END Prez Niccolo’s Machiavellian scheming aimed at making his errand boy the heir to his throne, that our establishment wrote about weeks ago,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: All bets on for next week’s election duel
AFTER a year-long election campaign, we have mercifully reached the final stretch. After today, there will just be another six days left and on the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Shiny things amid the rubble
WHEN last Sunday a Politis opinion poll showed that the lead of Nik’s chosen successor, Nikos the Second, had been cut to five percentage points,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Opening Varosha another part of Anastasiades’ great legacy
PREZ NIK, in his new role as Roman emperor, is not exhibiting the slightest hint of restraint in his intensive legacy-building drive which aims at...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Just what do I have to do to join the battered middle class?
ONE OF the main slogans of Ethnarch Junior, when he stood in the presidential elections five years ago, was that he would revive the middle...
