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From Peter Anthony Troy. LAST, week unnoticed in Jersey, the UK Prime Minister returned from the European Council meeting having, he said, denied the EU the right to determine which financial institutions he, or his successors, would be able to bail out in any future financial crises. The truth is he has not achieved this […]

From Peter Anthony Troy. THE French Government’s snub to the Queen by not inviting Her Majesty to the official 65th anniversary celebrations of the D-Day landings on 6 June is an insult to the British and Commonwealth veterans who will proudly salute their fallen comrades, as well as an insult to the memory of 17,566 […]

From Peter Anthony Troy. THERE is frequently discussion in these columns as to the independence, or otherwise, of Jersey from the UK. Long may that continue. However, discussions of Jersey’s independence should not be focused just on its links to the UK nor indeed on its historical association with the Crown but from the huge […]

From Nick Palmer, Jersey Climate Action Network spokesman YOUR correspondent, Peter Anthony Troy (JEP 11th August), claims that the ‘whole (global warming) theory has come under increasing suspicion because, as CO2 levels continue to rise, temperatures have failed to follow suit as the IPCC’s computer models predicted they should’. It is beyond the scope of […]

From Peter Anthony Troy. A SPATE of letters recently in the JEP which refer adversely to the Lieutenant-Governor’s comments on UK forces fighting in Afghanistan appear to have forgotten (if indeed they ever understood) why the Afghan conflict continues and why failure is not an option. The war in Afghanistan is an ongoing coalition conflict […]