Tales from the Coffeeshop

THE PICTURE of House president Annita Demetriou squatting in a saintly pose by the grave of an Eoka hero on April 1 and staring forlornly ahead was iconic political kitsch. It ...

KYPROULLA will not contribute any troops to a European task force that would maintain the peace in Ukraine in the very unlikely event that Russia agreed to a ceasefire deal, ...

THE MORE I see Prezniktwo in action the more he reminds me of an insecure schoolkid constantly seeking the approval and praise of the grown-ups by boasting about his perfect ...

THE FARCE about the multiple pensions seems set to play and play, with the House finance committee discussing the matter inconclusively every Monday, although deputies are determined to introduce a ...

DESPITE his burning desire to secure resumption of the talks, Prezniktwo is doing his best to ensure that the UN does not come up with any silly idea for bridging ...

I HOPE that we have not disappointed all those people who had thought our establishment had closed down and that Patroclos had gone into retirement so he could concentrate on ...

KYPROULLA was back in the international news last week but not under its new brand as a squeaky-clean regional pillar of safety and security, but as the base of the ...

WHAT a joker Prezniktwo is turning out to be. His best prank so far, which he has been staging for more than a year, had the Cyprob at its centre ...

IF HE WAS not such a union-pandering communist, we could have felt a bit of sympathy for Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou, after he was hung out to dry by Prezniktwo, ...

OUT OF THE BLUE on Wednesday it was announced that the Israeli President Isaak Herzog would be visiting Cyprus the next day for a meeting with Prezniktwo. The visit of ...

2025 appears destined to become the Year of the Political Saviours. Just a few days into the New Year, a third pretender has stepped forward offering to save Kyproulla from corruption, ...

BEING in holiday mode in the last week, vegetating in front of the box, binge-watching TV series and munching only things with excessive amounts of sugar or salt, after big, ...

THE TWO big banks gave Prezniktwo the Christmas presents he was asking for to improve his public image, after the battering it received from the comrades and other social justice ...

WE ARE deluding ourselves big-time if we believe that the abolition of the treaty of guarantee would automatically make our Kyproulla a normal country, as our politicians have been claiming ...

ODYSSEAS’ employment at the Michaelides family business, also known as the public service, may have been unjustly terminated but I am thrilled to see that his equally unhinged sister, Thoktor ...

YOU DO not have to be a Kyproulla-weary cynic to have a laugh whenever you hear our wise leaders talking about their grandiose energy plans which all have one thing ...

I OFTEN ask myself whether I have developed a Prezniktwo obsession, given the amount of space I give to the guy in our establishment every week. After many hours of ...

OUR DELUSIONS of grandeur hit red after the Prezniktwo’s meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House last Wednesday. Our constantly growing geostrategic/regional/diplomatic footprint, combined with ...

IF THERE are any people who still believe Prezniktwo actually means what he says, they should get their personal doctor to book an appointment with a brain specialist to have ...

WHEN he was foreign minister, our current prez loved to use the economic term “added value” to describe his foreign policy initiatives and agreements he forged. They invariably “added value” ...

NEW auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou may have been sworn in on Wednesday, but Odysseas has warned that he will be watching him. In an interview published on Saturday in his semi-official ...

THE PEOPLE-PLEASER Prez has lost his touch. He appears to be pissing off rather than pleasing most people while the media have also turned on him. Before the public uproar ...

THE SLAUGHTER of the sacred cow by the Supreme Constitutional Court was bloodless, but it still left such a mess that it could take a long time to clear up. ...

THE BIG DAY is nigh. On Wednesday the supreme constitutional court will announce its decision about the Odysseas-general. His future depends on the half a dozen judges who have probably ...