Tales from the Coffeeshop: Major progress as leaders become ‘quite focused’
SPEAKING on Trito on Saturday morning, education minister Costas Hambiarouis said he was shocked to hear about the Muslim student that was sent home by...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Kyproulla’s new sacred cash-cow
THE NATIONAL health scheme Gesy is the new sacred cow of Kyproulla, having overtaken auditor-general Odysseas as the institution that must be religiously respected at...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Wanted: new ‘bad demon’ after Brexit
IN THE END, our irrepressible foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides secured the maximum punitive measures the EU was willing to take against Turkey, which, were not...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Starters, main course, two states, dessert
THE CYPROB is obviously not a hot topic of conversation at social dinners any more. In fact, it may have gone completely out of fashion...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Big win for clichés in Euro elections
THE DARLING of the pro-solution peaceniks, Niyazi Kizilyurek, whom they declared a sacred symbol of peace and unity, secured the MEPs big fat salary last...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Parasites have no shame
THE MISERABLE leader of the public parasites, Glafcos Hadjiklamouris, felt so hurt by the barrage of well-deserved abuse levelled against his blood-sucking members, after the...
Coffeeshop: Naughty Turkey’s big incentive to behave
THE WAY the tripartite summit, with the ad hoc participation of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was reported by some you would have thought the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Prez Nik getting ready for another ‘loose’ TV show
WE ARE all waiting anxiously for Tuesday night when Prez Nik will unveil his latest Cyprob delaying tactic to TV audiences. The Prez will address...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Was the collapse of the Co-op a conspiracy theory?
WAS THE collapse of the Cooperative Central Bank (CCB) a well-plotted conspiracy aimed at boosting the size of Hellenic Bank? This is what a skettos-drinker...
Coffeeshop: Buttering up the parasites is a slippery slope
HE MIGHT be a hot-headed populist, he might not be feared like emperor Odysseas, but his public shit-stirring is highly entertaining, even if it is...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: A new international niche for Kyproulla
MANY people will have thought the report that Kyproulla’s international construction company J&P was in such deep financial trouble it had not paid its staff...
Coffeeshop: Another fine mess but no Yanks to the rescue
STATE broadcaster CyBC raised everyone’s hopes when it reported on Tuesday that the “US presence in the Mediterranean is strengthened, with an aircraft carrier in...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Our Cyprus: purges, Dikheads and the spoils of power
THE POETIC clichés continued even after the ‘festival of democracy’ ended on Sunday evening and almost three quarters of registered individuals exercised the ‘sacred right...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Saudi visit eclipsed by EEZ blunder
STUDENTS and ministers who had gathered for the presentation of Prez Nik’s masterplan for the next five years were getting rather twitchy on Tuesday waiting...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Welcome to the Tof School of economics
WHO WOULD ever have believed that Comrade Tof’s economic thinking would have been embraced by all of today’s presidential candidates. They are all talking –...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Makarios Syndrome and the declaration of platitudes
SYMPTOMS of the Makarios Syndrome, the disease that makes a president of a midget country grossly overestimate his (it does not afflict females) importance and...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Amnesia politikanticus aka post-election disease
YOU KNOW elections are nigh when the public lunacy indicators hit red and politicians are flashing the taxpayer’s cash, making spending promises, which would bankrupt...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Putin and the province of Kyproulla
PREZ NIK was glowing, wearing a broader grin than we have ever seen before, as he was welcomed by President Putin to his Moscow palace....
Tales from the Coffeeshop: ‘The Viagra effect’ on a slow news day.
THE PHED Express turned into a Hurricane Phedonas on Thursday night as he let fly allegations of corruption against politicians, civil servants and businessmen. While...
Coffeeshop: Of mice and men: the best plans for financial cover-ups
AFTER years of foot-dragging and lame excuses by the parties, the eagerly-awaited law that would allegedly introduce transparency and combat corruption by forcing our...
