Tales from the Coffeeshop: Marathon brainstorming and multi-dimensional hot air
THE MILLION-dollar question that nobody has asked and therefore has not been answered is whether the beard will be a permanent feature on the Prez’s...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Barbie branding and poor sartorial choices
A COUPLE of weeks ago the “internationally-acclaimed, award-winning Cypriot artist Alexia” performed her “conceptual live-arts culturalwork (sic) Kypris” in the street between the Cyprus museum...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Triumphs rain down on umbrella diplomacy
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...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Adding value to Prez Nik II’s agenda
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...
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...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Farewell to a golden age with gift of new spiritual guide
ON THIS Christmas Day, all Christians of Kyproulla, including the non-believers, have been given the best possible present they could have prayed for, even though...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Utter nonsense gaining ground with swathes of population
OUR DEPUTIES go on a three-month holiday having attended the last session of the House on Friday. The legislature will reconvene after the end of...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: In memory of the man too smart to seek public approval
SO FAREWELL Archbishop Chrys II, poor boy from Tala who rose to the top of the Church thanks to his undoubted cunning and wits. Our...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Not just the outside world that no longer cares
WHO COULD have believed that there would come a day when only a pitiful 8 per cent of our population would consider the Cyprob the...
Tales from the coffeeshop: 62 years of facing down threats paraded before us
KYPROULLA celebrated its 62nd anniversary of independence on Saturday with the traditional military parade, held in the sweltering Nicosia heat, which proved no deterrent to...
