Tales from the Coffeeshop

IT IS STILL unclear whether the report about customs officials checking how much petrol is in a car crossing north actually happened or was a fabrication aimed at frightening people ...

WE HAVE lost count of the number of triumphs we have recorded on paper, thanks to the courageous battles fought by our warrior diplomats all over the world, often in ...

THE RETIRED Nik loved grand gestures. When Odysseas demanded that the interior ministry hand him over 20 files relating to ‘the citizenship by buying a grossly overpriced house scheme,’ and was ...

OUR PREZ has completed his 100 days in office, which has dogmatically come to be considered as some kind of grace period, for a newly elected prez. It is a period ...

THE POLITICAL renewal that Prez Nik II promised in the election campaign was put into practice, not for the first time, with the return to action of retired ambassador and ...

ANGELA MERKEL was declared possible candidate for the role of special envoy of the EU by all the Cyprus and Greece news websites, after Prez Nik II’s visit to ...

LAST Sunday’s Diko conference turned into a love-in, party leader Junior exercising zero restraint in his public adulation of his new political idol – Prez Nik II. “If you did ...

I COULD not resist the temptation to engage in a little bit of cannibalism, having not had the opportunity to do so when everyone was at it last week, prompting ...

THE NEW general-secretary of Pasydy, the public parasites union, Stratis Mattheou seems a much nicer guy than his obnoxiously arrogant predecessor, Glafcos Hadjiklamouris, who believed he owned our Kyproulla and ...

IN THE end, Prez Nik II bowed to public pressure and rather belatedly obeyed the law about the publication of contributors to election campaign. On Thursday, two weeks after the ...

THE SANCTIONS, imposed by the Yanks and Brits during Holy Week on 23 Cypriots and 20 Cyprus-based companies, may have brought the honeymoon period of the new presidency to a premature end ...

A WORD of sympathy for the former permanent secretary of the foreign ministry Kornelios Korneliou, whose humiliating demotion by the new government, has become a popular talking point in the ...

MOKAS, which is known in English as the ‘Unit for Combating Money Laundering,’ is one of those state organs that was set up for the sake of appearances, never really ...

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 before it went into critical ...

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 presidente of the Kyproulla republic? ...

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 by Nikos II was both ...

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 and the ugly having decided ...

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 be crowned Nikos the Second, to ...

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, did not go to ...

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 seventh we will have a ...

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, his trolls on social ...

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 establishing himself as the greatest ...

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 class which he defined as ...

I WAS tempted to wish our customers a happy new year, but in the end I decided against it as I do not think 2023 has the potential to be happy ...