Tales from the Coffeeshop: Shiny things amid the rubble
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,...
Tales from the coffeeshop
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Audacity deserving of an international award
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...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: When pandering trumps principle
SUPREME ruler of the Dias media empire, Zeus Hadjicostis, I hear from a reliable source, has been on to Akel chief, Stef Stef, trying to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: And in the 11th year he rested
FOLLOWING the activities of Prez Nik in the last few weeks, you could easily have been fooled into thinking that he was campaigning for re-election....
Tales from the Coffeeshop: When love conquers all
WHAT HAD been shaping up as an acrimonious divorce, with a custody battle and a legal row over the ownership of the house and furniture,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: ‘Heir to the hair’ gripped by moral high ground
ONE THING I discovered watching the debate of the presidential candidates on Sigma TV on Monday night was that self-regarding, presenter Yiannis Kareklas has changed...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Self-pity is the latest vote-winning technique
I ALMOST shed a tear reading the report of Nicos Christodoulides self-pitying speech at an election gathering in Polemidia, where he took on the role...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The sacred cash-cow has its first martyr
THE DEVOUT churchgoers and Orthodox fanatics, who have been living on myths spread by monks (also known as prophesies of the holy fathers) about the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Giving Marie Antoinette a run for her money
GIVEN the borderline lawful way in which he has been leeching off the taxpayer, you dread to think what the Diko-Edek independent candidate Nikos Christodoulides,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: A regional hub for lack of perspective
BEING a deeply religious man and an avid churchgoer, you would have thought the independent Diko-Edek candidate, who remains a Disy member, and will bring...
