By Lindsay Ash IT’S strange how the death of a stranger can affect people. We saw it with the recent death of Ricky Hatton. The explanation is a fairly simple one; they have in some ways touched our lives and therefore our emotions. The sport of boxing has done that more than most over the […]
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Nowadays, it seems we are now entitled to say what we like…as long as the left approve of it
By Lindsay Ash There’s a wonderful exchange in Blackadder Goes Forth between General Melchett and Captain Darling that goes like this: Captain Darling: So you see, Blackadder, Field Marshal Haig is most anxious to eliminate all these German spies. General Melchett: Filthy Hun weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war. Captain Darling: And fortunately one of […]
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To put Compton’s achievements in perspective, it would be like Joe Root playing for Liverpool
By Lindsay Ash SOME time ago in the 1970s a hotel in Torquay hired a firm of builders whose work was less than satisfactory. The hotel proprietor blamed one of the staff for the errors, using the following phrase: “Well, whose fault is it then, you cloth-eared bint – Denis Compton’s?” This raises two questions […]
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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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Quotes for the ages that make you laugh, think and wonder: ‘Why couldn’t I have said that?’
By Lindsay Ash WELL what an interesting by election we saw in Gorton, where the Greens triumphed with what can only be described as “unusual far-left” policies. The abolition of landlords being one. This is problematic because either landlords will be forced to sell, causing a seismic property crash, plunging the financial system into chaos, […]
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It was one of the biggest upsets ever when Ashe beat Connors – and I was at Wimbledon to see it
By Lindsay Ash THERE is a sign that hangs above the entrance to Centre Court at Wimbledon, or the All England Club to give it the correct title. It’s the words of Kipling and says: “If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.” The words came back […]
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The time has come for us to have a sensible conversation about the tax that Jersey pensioners pay
By Lindsay Ash FOLLOWING the last election, the Labour party did something fairly unthinkable for a party purporting to represent the more vulnerable sections of society: they cut the winter fuel allowance for pensioners. This caused outrage partly because it hadn’t figured in their recent manifesto (one can only guess why and I imagine that […]
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“Good things come to those who wait”… Long-running hospitality campaign sees pricing restrictions eased
WORK to bring in a new Licensing Law may be well advanced, but in the meantime some of the restrictions around drinks promotions that are part of the old law were this week scrapped… with immediate effect. The JEP heard from those raising a glass to the changes… Legal guidance for licence-holders was stripped back, […]
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'Hello 2025 – whatever happens it won’t be boring with Trump, Farage and Labour around…'
By Lindsay Ash WELL, here we are then… Hello 2025 and in the words of Tony Blair’s election song, “things can only get better” because, with the various conflicts taking place across the globe, one would struggle to disagree with those sentiments. Much of whether it does or not will depend on the new President […]
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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 […]
