Tales from the Coffeeshop: The unbearable moralising of vaxxers, anti-vaxxers and politicians
AT LEAST the streets are still SafePass-free zones, but for how much longer is anyone’s guess. For now, we will not need a safe pass...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Rejection is all the rage
YOU ALMOST felt sorry for Prez Nik after the week he has just had. The number of public rejections he suffered would have forced lesser...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Prez Nik’s election confusion
THE ELECTION campaign may have legally ended at midnight on Friday, but some party leaders continued with some light campaigning on Saturday. It was a...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: There’s nothing more permanent than the temporary
THERE is an expression that officials use to highlight the lunacy of executive decisions that are provisional, as a way of reassuring affected parties that...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Covid police state comes unstuck
A WEEK rarely goes by without the auditor-general Odysseas, Kyproulla’s self-proclaimed Elliot Ness, featuring in the news. He is second only to Prez Nik in...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Hysteria reaches new heights over semantics
LACK of perspective and a sense of proportion have always marked the way the drama queen politicians of Kyproulla view the world but they surpassed...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Someone needs to take a reality pill
IF THERE was anyone who thought that Prez Nik’s impassioned declarations of support for the bizonal, bicommunal federation, even without political equality, and for the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: El Diablo bedevils God-fearing Kyproulla
RELIGIOUS fanatics were incensed by the lyrics of our Eurovision song, El Diablo, and directed their self-righteous rage at the CyBC which had selected such...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: A gift for splitting hairs and spinning gestures
PREZ Nik had his big day in front of the investigative committee on Tuesday, pleading ignorance to questions that he did not want to answer....
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Social media: the place where gossip becomes news
THINGS could not get any worse for Prez Nik than they did in the last week, when he ended up having to defend himself against...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Beard of Morphou raises flag of Covid rebellion
WE LIVE in depressing times when the only people resisting the growing restrictions placed on our liberties by the government are a couple of nutcase...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: members of the Branch Covidian cult are everywhere
I AM NO virologist, epidemiologist or scientist of any type, but I think I am still qualified, as a member of the human race with...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: All he wants is to be loved
PREZ NIK always gave the impression that he was a thick-skinned politician, one that did not care what was being said about him and could...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Prez Nik’s mission impossible
IF YOU can have football matches without spectators, in the age of Covid-19, you can also have a military parade on Independence Day for the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: A Russian recipe for never reaching a settlement
The lavish praise heaped on Mother Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov during his visit to the heatwave island on Tuesday by our awe-struck government, politicians,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: ‘Carrot and stick’ enters Cyprob vocab
THE VISIT of Greece’s foreign minister Nikos Dendias on Tuesday turned out to a bit of an anti-climax and disappointment for our government which had...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Kyproulla at risk of becoming a motherless child
OUR RULERS, wasted no time turning into little dictators again, after the surge in coronavirus cases, adopting the authoritarian tone as they talked down to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Boffins’ tourism policy is a giant flop
I DON’T remember the last time our establishment was closed for three weeks, but I assure our customers our lockdown had absolutely nothing to do...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The art of diplomacy for public consumption
YOU COULD not help but share the genuine anguish of Dr Eleni Theocharous about our weakened defences, “ at a time when Cyprus is being...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Virus fears extra-high among the chronically lazy
I HAVE never been a great socialiser and the older I get the more reclusive I become, something my friends would testify to, given the...