AFTER a disastrous showing when Jersey last went to the polls in June 2022, the Jersey Alliance has been dissolved by the Royal Court. Just one of the 14 Alliance candidates to contest seats at the last general election was successful, and now the party is over. The decision to dissolve was announced by chair […]
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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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'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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'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, […]
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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 new Pavement Code is needed for our busy society – pedestrians, bike riders and dog walkers beware'
By Lindsay Ash YOU often wonder what happened to the miners who were forced to discover new employment following the Thatcher years. Well, I can tell you where some are: they are running on Jersey’s streets at night. I have spotted several recently in their day-glow jackets with lamps on their heads as they wend […]
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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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'One thing you can say about Jersey politics, it’s rarely dull. It’s a soap opera with a Dallas budget'
By Lindsay Ash So we are a few days into 2024 and we have a VoNC. While it sounds like a rather unpleasant sexually transmitted disease (“I’m afraid you seem to have contracted a VoNC”) it is actually a rather routine Jersey political event these days that takes place about two years after an election, […]
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'‘Anyone can do the marathon, to be honest, but to do it without training, that’s special’'
By Lindsay Ash LAST time I put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard if you wish to be pedantic) for the JEP I touched on the subject of the use of the pavement. Now, as the days grow longer, we see a new pavement dweller becoming more prevalent: that of the jogger or runner. […]
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'He would whack me on the back and say: ‘Well done, Ash. You’re a rugger player like Charlie Upham’'
By Lindsay Ash IT could be a quiz question…What has been won by Eton College more times than any other school, 17 times by the former school of the editor of the JEP and also by two brothers who attended Victoria College? The answer is the VC which, perhaps in modern woke times, I should […]
