Tales from the Coffeeshop: How kebabs trumped Covid restrictions
THE TINY probability of Kyproulla experiencing a shortage of pork for a few days spurred the government into emergency action, Prez Nik shunning the idea...
Tales from the Coffeshop
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Cyprob tries to come out of lockdown
IT WAS BACK briefly on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, but, sadly it did not last. I refer to our dear Kypriako (Cyprob), which had...
A tough week for Nik and a dinner in Berlin he might not digest
NOTHING seems to be going well for Prez Nik these days. Just when the noise surrounding the passports business had died down, the Israeli spy...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Lies, lies and holy revelations
PREZ NIK named and shamed another liar of the world political scene last week – Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Cavusoglu now joins the former...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Kyproulla’s weapons of mass rhetoric fail to deliver
NEITHER our geo-strategic importance nor our strategic trilateral alliances that Phil and the rest of the bash-patriotic geo-strategists love to peddle were much help in...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Rusfetology and the fear of mutual humiliation
AN OPPORTUNITY to indulge in rampant moralising never passes unexploited by our politicians, who always have one foot in the stirrup, ready to get on...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Damn those back-stabbing usual suspects
EVERYONE was trying to explain the reasons for the saintly Andreas Mavroyiannis’ narrow defeat in last Monday’s election for the president of the UN General...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The halloumification of the Cyprob
By Patroclos OUR FOREIGN ministry has always been staffed by self-regarding civil servants that think their work is much more important than that of any...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Nice Nik employment agency is teeming with jobs
By Patroclos IN THE END, last Friday’s planned 24-hour strike – subsequently cut to a 12-hour work stoppage – by all public parasites was eventually...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Bankers and the re-invention of history
By Patroclos AT LAST our government got a well-deserved pat on the back from the troika for effectively implementing the conditions of the memorandum and...