By Lindsay Ash NEXT week sees the start of Wimbledon, the world’s greatest tennis tournament. Or to put it another way, as I never tired of telling my American colleagues, the All England Tennis Championships. Whether it’s just age or not I don’t know but I think the event has lost something over the years. […]
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The new hospital: A disaster of proportions that Nick Leeson would have found alarming
By Lindsay Ash SO, I left you last week with the new government all set to be formed and it had little to do as far as the new hospital was concerned. It had planning permission, a price, a contractor and a method of funding it – although they’d have had to move swiftly and […]
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What do you get when you fork out school fees?
By Lindsay Ash I RECENTLY attended a conference on schools and someone asked me a very good question: “What should you be getting for your money if you are paying fees?”The obvious and correct answer is of course “something better than you receive in the States system”, as it would be very odd to pay […]
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If you are going to read ONE article on the Hospital saga then I suggest you make it this one
By Lindsay Ash “WHY are you talking about the bloody hospital? We are all fed up with it.” I understand the sentiment and agree with it but I also think it’s VITAL that the Jersey taxpayer is given the facts as to where their money has gone and, more importantly, will continue to go over […]
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In sport, we often find ourselves seeking solutions but finding few
By Lindsay Ash THOSE of you who follow the thump of leather on willow may have observed that our women cricketers have lost rather heavily out in Australia and there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth as to why Australia are very good and we are not and what can be done about […]
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'Tunnelling to France may not yet fall within the ‘Overton Window’ – but it may be heading that way'
By Gavin St Pier ANYONE who operates in the political sphere seeking change needs to familiarise themselves with the concept of the Overton Window. As these things are, it’s named after an individual – Joseph Overton. He was an American political scientist and the window named after him might be more readily recognised outside the […]
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'In readiness for the Olympics, here are my five greatest Olympians'
By Lindsay Ash I’VE never really understood people who don’t like sport. It has always been my main love, but I know there are those that don’t. My ex in-laws were very much in that camp and I remember being at their house when the Olympic final between Coe and Ovett was taking place and […]
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If high-quality candidates really mattered to the Jersey voter our party would have been a shoe-in
By Lindsay Ash RECENTLY the JEP ran a story on the latest effort to get us all to rock up and vote, this time in the 2026 election. We have seen many attempts over the years to do this and reasons given as to the low turnout. When I first stood in 2018 there was […]
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'A true sense of unity within society has to be felt – it cannot be manufactured'
By Lindsay Ash A COUPLE of weeks back, just after the UK election, I was perusing the Sunday papers in the local hostelry with a glass of red and, as I did so, certain things struck me. No, not objects from other regulars, although I wouldn’t put it past them… but thoughts. These were sparked […]
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'Real football fans have been let down over the years – whatever happened to serving committed supporters?'
By Lindsay Ash IT was almost a tried-and-trusted rule: never discuss religion or politics if you want a peaceful life… These days you could most certainly add football to that list. In days gone by that would have been limited to the particular team you supported and those you didn’t. However, now we have: VAR, […]
