Tales from the coffeeshop

BOOSTED by the success of the informal dinner with the UNSG in Berlin, which received rave reviews, Prez Nik’s government made another revelation to illustrate...

ALL IS NOT well at the presidential palace, where Prez Nik seems to be permanently in a foul mood that he reportedly takes out on...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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....