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THERE has been a lot of talk recently about spending our way out of a recession. Earlier this week, for example, the boss of the largest Channel Island supermarket chain was urging us not to talk ourselves into gloom and doom – and no doubt to have the confidence to spend more.

ALTHOUGH the global recession has begun to bite here in Jersey, the worst might not yet be over. We have already seen redundancies and a significant downturn in certain sectors of the economy, but Economic Development Minister Alan Maclean warned the States yesterday that, comparatively speaking, this could be ‘the calm before the storm’.

I’M sorry, we don’t do God’ was the famous Alistair Campbell remark, cutting off a question to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

HERE’S the thing about us: we want to buy a Ford but drive a Rolls-Royce. It’s not our fault; it’s just how we’re wired.

WE are now almost ten years into this new millennium but, as anyone who visits St Helier will be all too aware, the promised Millennium Park which was to have taken shape on the old gasworks site has yet to materialise.