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By Lindsay Ash THERE is a legendary Oxbridge exam question which was “Is this a question?” Many of the students wrote pages on this, but apparently the correct and most brilliant answer was “If it’s a question then this is an answer.” Personally, I feel if I had written that the response would have been […]

By Lindsay Ash Here’s a question for you… would you prefer Chinese, Indian or a good old-fashioned Jersey crock? Now the obvious answer would be that you’d prefer an Indian every time, preferably a king prawn madras with boiled rice, a naan bread and a few papadums washed down with a couple of pints of […]

By Lindsay Ash IF you are of a certain generation then cheating was strictly a no-no be it in exams, on the playing fields or with a partner. This has been somewhat usurped by course work, waiting for the umpire’s finger if you’ve hit it, and friends with benefits… The issue of what constitutes cheating […]

By Lindsay Ash NOW we are well into the second year of this Assembly I feel that I can safely answer the questions often put to me. Namely: do you regret launching a party? What did you hope to achieve? And: why did it fail? These are my views. Other Alliance candidates may see things […]

By Lindsay Ash I RECENTLY touched on the “rules of war”, or lack of them. This sparked an interesting debate among the regulars I quaff with on rules generally and why anyone pays any regard to them, especially VAR. But casting VAR to one side (I may return to that in a later column), rules […]

By Lindsay Ash Sadly, the Jersey Reds appear to have been lost in what resembles a soap whodunnit. One thing we do know is that no blame whatsoever lies at the feet of Harvey Biljon, his coaching staff and the players, who have been a credit throughout not only in this situation, but in their […]

By Lindsay Ash ONE of the major topics of discussion in Jersey is the government in all its guises, so it’s interesting to reflect on the survey into the handling of Covid, which included the following… ‘We have concluded that, overall, the government did a good job’ – nice to hear but hardly reflective of […]

By Lindsay Ash ‘All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me,’ was a famous quote from the great man Sir Winston Churchill. These days, of course, if he lived in Jersey the quote would have been more akin to ‘alcohol has taken far […]

By Lindsay Ash WE hear an awful lot on social media, and indeed in the letters pages of the JEP, comments such as ‘you wouldn’t run a company like that’ or ‘surely there are good local business people who could be the Government of Jersey chief executive’. Both are statements that warrant further scrutiny (if […]

By Lyndsay Ash FIRSTLY I know this is possibly the bravest article ever to appear in the JEP but I wrote it on the basis that one should not be intimidated, and in the words of Kipling: ‘If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken …twisted by knaves to make a trap for […]