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...
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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: Busy week for movers and shakers
THE STATE broadcaster appeared to have been on a mission to maintain people’s Covid-19-related alarm at peak levels at the start of the week. For...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Sad day for parasites as corona vacation ends
WELL what a relief that from Monday those who are stuck at home because they belong to a vulnerable group or work in a place...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Hideous parasites go out of their way to make us hate them
IT WAS just as well the Supreme Court upheld the appeal of the attorney-general against last year’s administrative court decision which ruled that the cuts...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Coronavirus diplomacy – enough is never enough
YOU CAN always rely on our political parties to turn even a very serious matter like the spreading of the coronavirus into an excuse for...
Government to take measures over Spitfire issue
The Republic of Cyprus will take measures if UN efforts to resolve a standoff with the Turkish military over a derelict building in the heart...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Slips of the tongue and hate campaign dog government
AS IF IT were not bad enough that they had sent their Yavuz drillship into offshore block 8, the drilling rights of which have been...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Courageous defiance or plain teenage silliness?
THE TEENAGE boy who took down a Turkish flag from a primary school in Lysi last Sunday has caused great confusion in our society, which...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Confused ramblings from church and state
OUR CHURCH has always had lunatics in its ranks, but one who is currently flying the flag is Bishop Neophytos of Morphou, who has taken...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: No substitutes on Supreme Court bench causing problem
YOU HAD to laugh hearing that the attorney-general had asked for the exclusion of more than half the judges on the full bench of the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Brit-bashing bandwagon rolls into town
THE DESTABILISATION of the Eastern Mediterranean was not a matter of concern only to Cyprus, but would have repercussions that would also affect Britain, Prez...
Coffeeshop: The politics of halloumification
IF ANYONE was wondering why the European Commission has left our application for the registration of halloumi/hellim as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) to...
Coffeeshop: Macron of France meets Macron of Kyproulla
PREZ NIK and his associates were on a high, their pride and joy levels hitting red on Tuesday when they played hosts to the Southern...
Kyproulla: where sadly, justice has perfect vision
WHEN a few weeks ago, lawyer Nicos Clerides, the brother of the attorney general, wrote in social media that “our courts are controlled by the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Birth of the EastMed sacred cow
THE BIRTH of another Kyproulla sacred calf was announced on Thursday at the Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral summit, in Beer Sheva in the Negev desert in Israel...
Cyprob wolves in sheep’s clothing
THE DECISION issued by the administrative court, ruling the cuts to pensions of public employees when the state was bankrupt were unconstitutional, is a perfect...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Hairdressers and the loose federation
THE GOVERNMENT was obliged to put a positive spin on the UNSG’s report that was released on Monday, because Prez Nik felt he had to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: On a mission to become the country’s sweetheart
PREZ NIK was completely upstaged in the Big Apple, where he was with his entourage last week for the UN General Assembly, by his foreign...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Lessons in capitulation
THE ONLY qualification required for someone to get a job at the presidential palace is to be related in some way to a journalist. That...