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From Tim Ransom. SO Senator Terry Le Main doesn’t think it is anyone else’s business as to where he is when he should be at work, eh? Well, as a member of the electorate and therefore one of his many bosses, I would like a full explanation, and an apology, as to why he failed […]

I DOUBT whether the powers that be at Flybe any longer read the many and varied references to them made in this newspaper and elsewhere, because they must be fed up with defending, not to mention often seeking to justify, some of their business practices.

AS photographs have shown us this week, the States’ largest ever capital project is fast taking shape on the Waterfront.

MORE than 50 years ago Columbia Pictures released a delightful comedy about a tiny country that devised a novel idea to get itself out of an economic mess.

FROM the outside, to all intents and purposes, the acts of a) reviewing the effects of 10% cuts to the public sector because you want to make them, and b) reviewing the effects of 10% cuts because you don’t want to make them, appear to be exactly the same.

From Deputy Daniel Wimberley. WHY does it matter about Power and Warcup? Surely, the Comprehensive Spending Review, or the Sustainable Transport Policy, to take but two things I am currently working on, will have a more direct impact on Islanders’ lives? Yes, it can feel like a sideshow – but I am convinced that it […]

From Deputy Daniel Wimberley. POOR little Jersey! We are so poor, says our Council of Ministers, that we cannot afford to give ourselves a present for the new Millennium. Or rather, ministers want to take away the present we all agreed on and change it into something quite different. The Island as a whole voted […]

LAST week’s States sitting was like some awful, twisted version of The X Factor – 53 politicians all striving to make the biggest possible hash of the fairly straightforward tasks in front of them.