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From Daniel Wimberley. I BELIEVE that something profound and sad is happening at this referendum and I thought I should share it with your readers. I think there is a way forward, but we need to be clear about what is at stake. The country parishes, not so long ago, were a network of small-scale, […]

From David Rotherham, chairman, Jersey Rights Association. WILL the Electoral Commission interim report be a seminal moment for Jersey politics or, as many predict, a lost opportunity? We agree with Daniel Wimberley (JEP, 18 October); the omens are not good. In a lengthy written submission made by the Jersey Rights Association to the Electoral Commission, […]

AN old teacher of mine used to tell a story about his university days, and his first attempt at cooking a roast dinner for his housemates. He preheated his oven, prepped his chicken, peeled and prepared his veg, and then put everything in the appropriate oven or pan to cook.

From Daniel Wimberley. MAY I offer some thoughts on population? The situation we find ourselves in does not make any sense. We have 1,800 unemployed (more, if you use the ILO method of counting the unemployed) and yet the population is the highest ever. If the population had not increased by leaps and bounds, if […]

THANKS to the welcome intervention of Deputy Carolyn Labey, States Members have another chance to reverse the absurd and fundamentally anti-democratic decision to remove four Senators from our elected Assembly.

THE spotlight in the States this week will be focused on issues of central importance to the general wellbeing of Jersey and its inhabitants – immigration and new means by which it can be monitored and controlled.