Tales from the coffeeshop
NOW WE know why our bearded Prez never turns down an invitation to be the guest of honour at an event. It is not because...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Racists take principled stance on delivery drivers
WHAT is our world coming to when the party that has based its steady growth on xenophobia and racist rhetoric expels one of its municipal...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Pyla incident pays goody two shoes policy back in spades
THE VIOLENT scrap between the Turks and a dozen Brit and Slovak men from Unficyp was a great way to wake us up from our...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Whatever you do, don’t mention the gambling
KYPROULLA’S crème de la crème attended the glitzy, grand opening of City of Dreams Mediterranean on Tuesday evening, at which they were entertained by the...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Can we, can’t we buy petrol from the north?
IT IS STILL unclear whether the report about customs officials checking how much petrol is in a car crossing north actually happened or was a...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Political rejuvenation enters the age of recycling
THE POLITICAL renewal that Prez Nik II promised in the election campaign was put into practice, not for the first time, with the return to...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Still striving to be an A-list international problem
ANGELA MERKEL was declared possible candidate for the role of special envoy of the EU by all the Cyprus and Greece news websites, after Prez...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Junior finds a new idol to worship
LAST Sunday’s Diko conference turned into a love-in, party leader Junior exercising zero restraint in his public adulation of his new political idol – Prez...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Cake for the parasites, crumbs for the rest
THE NEW general-secretary of Pasydy, the public parasites union, Stratis Mattheou seems a much nicer guy than his obnoxiously arrogant predecessor, Glafcos Hadjiklamouris, who believed...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Businesspeople outspend the crowds
IN THE end, Prez Nik II bowed to public pressure and rather belatedly obeyed the law about the publication of contributors to election campaign. On...