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WHETHER it is drumming up business in the Middle East, signing a tax exchange agreement with Japan or our ‘great’ friendship with the UK, we often hear our politicians talking about Jersey’s relationship with other jurisdictions.

OF all the reasons to want to be the Education Minister – presumably there are some, although for the moment they escape me entirely – you might imagine that wanting to defend your right to cut school budgets would not be one.

ELECTION time is when the pub not far from Chez Clement really comes into its own. That’s not to say that the corner regularly occupied by the Last of the Summer Wine crowd – all of a certain age and most of us fortunately still with all the marbles, although perhaps in some cases not always in the correct order – is silent between elections (far from it, on occasions) but the place has taken on a certain vibrancy in the last week or so.

IT just could not have been less scientific. There wasn’t a lab coat or a Bunsen burner in sight – what there was, and bear with me here, was a list of 51 names with a ‘P’ or an ‘I’ marked next to each one and two numbers scrawled across the bottom.