Tales from the Coffeeshop: The Cyprob world tour begins!
ALL KYPROULLA is laughing and mocking the former Disy big-wig and deputy Nikos Tornaritis for accepting the most ludicrous post ever thought up by a Prez to reward one of ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Will Prez use election to destroy another party?
ETHNARCH Junior is going through a rather difficult period as he is having difficulty controlling some of his top dogs who want the party to announce its support for Nik ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: At least the prez is safe in his fancy new car
WHO would have thought that the Prez of our tiny Republic would be driven around in an armoured limousine that cost a whopping €595,000?
This is a big step-up from the ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Please pay attention to the former president
RETIREMENT is something that Nik I is just not comfortable with. He just refuses to accept that he no longer has a role to play and keeps finding excuses to ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Bringing people together undermines Cyprus’ reunification efforts
THE PATRIOTIC forces scored another resounding victory for the national cause a few days ago when they succeeded in seeing off the threat posed to our national survival by a ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Prezniktwo undecided over a round two? What a joke
CAN WE believe a word Prezniktwo ever says? In an interview, broadcasted by ANT1 on Monday night, he said that he would decide whether to seek re-election in 2027.
And this ...
Tales from the Coffeshop: Proof our Nik has no interest in a Cyprus settlement
WARNING: If you are bored of the Cyprob, stop reading now.
PREZNIKTWO was in defiant mood at the presidential place on Monday evening in his speech to mark the 52nd ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: One more extension ought to do it
THE INHUMANITY the Paphos authorities have shown in the treatment of the British father, whose three-year-old son was killed, after falling out of a fourth-floor hotel window in Paphos last ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Give her the job! Only Raouna can look after our EU interests
A FEW weeks ago our establishment had mentioned that the Prez would be looking for job to give the deputy minister of European Affairs, Marilena Raouna, whose contract would expire ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Why did govt miss chance to laud Cyprus role?
WHO would have thought it would ever have been possible for the Nik II government to have a big international meeting on the sunshine isle and treat it as a ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The old boy is back in town, guns blazing
NIK I was back in the spotlight on Tuesday reliving the good old days when he was Kyproulla’s ex officio centre of attention.
The last time he had so ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Much report, little revelation
THE REPORT about the Mafia State was finally released on Tuesday by the Anti-Corruption Authority, which turned out to be a bit of a disappointment.
After two years of work, ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Is president unaware of Cyprob fatigue?
THERE was a time, some years ago, when a visit by a UN envoy to Kyproulla, with the aim of kicking some life into the Cyprob, would be big news, ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Annita more Machiavelli than Barbie
CONGRATS to Disy boss, Annita Demetriou for securing a second stint as House Prezita and showing all the men, who privately dismissed her as ‘Barbie’ and another ‘clueless blonde’, that ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The revolution was cancelled
UNFORTUNATELY, the election results were disappointingly predictable and the instability that the government, Annita, Junior and Phil’s hacks were terrified of did not happen.
The two big parties both ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: ‘Festival of democracy’ even includes AI gorilla
WHAT a relief that the elections will be over this evening and from tomorrow I will not have to see the face of big-shot candidate George Pamborides staring at me ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: From messiah to punching bag: The many lives of Ody
REGULARS will know that our establishment was never a fan of Odysseas Michaelides, not even in the days when his popularity was sky-high, when the media celebrated him like a ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Assault dogs let loose as election bickering begins
ALTHOUGH, we are still a month away from the parliamentary elections, wherever you look in Nicosia’s streets there are billboards, with the photoshopped faces of candidates, after our vote.
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: We have all become ‘Sandinistas’
THE COFFEESHOP was closed for Easter when Politis published the story about Black Cube, the Israeli company which was behind the production of the video in which associates of the ...
Tales From the Coffeeshop: Nothing to see here (except for judges, spies and a bit of weed)
WHAT could a poor weekly columnist write as click-bait when in the last few days, the news was dominated by sensational allegations about corrupt judges, child rape, illegitimate children, big ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Is state too stupid or too corrupt?
ANYONE who watched the interview of MEP Fidias Panayiotou – now leader of the Direct Democracy of Cyprus party – with the over-the-hill hack Yiannis Kareklas on Sigma TV would no longer ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: A ‘frank and open’ discussion on the bases, Prez style
PREZNIKTWO has embraced a new cause that is certain to win him many brownie points and give his flagging approval ratings a much-needed boost. He will raise the issue of ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Leather jackets and livestock crises
THE QUESTION anyone with half a brain asks, is why our authorities had not started vaccinating sheep, goats and cows when the outbreak of foot and mouth disease was reported ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Enjoying living in fear as war brings back glory days of Covid
THE BOMBING War against Iran has revived the Covid spirit among our paranoid countrymen who enjoy having a reason to live in fear every minute of the day.
Nicosia’s ...