HUMANITY learned many lessons from the 1970s, mostly about haircuts and trousers, but also one genuinely fundamental truth about politics that spans decades, ideology and oceans – that whoever you are, wherever you are, and whatever your intentions, politicians and secret recordings just do not work well together.
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UK prisoners may be sent home
A DEAL to send foreign prisoners back to their home countries will be discussed with UK officials this week.
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They’ve reached the less-than-startling conclusion that our politics is a bit rubbish
GET this: ministers are obsessed with secrecy and hoarding power, States sittings are a boring nightmare of repetition, stupid questions and pointless debates on the whims of individual Members, and five years of the ministerial system has created an atmosphere of antagonism and suspicion within the States Chamber.
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An apology from Health
HEALTH Minister Anne Pryke has apologised to children who suffered years of abuse while social services, schools, courts and police failed to protect them.
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Call to tighten Island’s gun laws
A FORMER Centenier and gun officer who warned that Jersey could become the scene of another Dunblane massacre has repeated his concerns about the Island’s gun laws in the wake of this week’s Cumbria shootings.
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New move on setting up Police Authority
AFTER years of inactivity a deadline could finally be set for a Police Authority to hold the force to account.
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The people at Postal have brought this on themselves
THERE was a time, in those halcyon days which followed this small rock breaking free of the General Post Office in October 1969, when almost literally the business of printing stamps was akin to printing money.
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Asbos are not going to solve the problem
From M Messiter. SO the States of Jersey police want Asbos (Anti-Social Behaviour Orders) to deal with our troublesome youths. Not surprising when you remember that the States police has to be headed by an officer brought in from the UK, which leads to the tendency to view the English way as the best, even […]
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Police pay: Time for a rethink
FEW people would say that being a police officer is one of the world’s easiest jobs.
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This must not happen again
THROUGHOUT human history the young and weak have been preyed upon by a small minority of deviant adults. The difference between the past and the modern age, however, is that, in the developed world, we have agencies whose role it is to protect the vulnerable and bring the guilty to justice.
