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FOLLOWING up his election promise to resolve the long-running issue of States reform, Senator Sir Philip Bailhache and the Electoral Commission he chairs have now completed the first round of their public consultation on the future make-up of the Assembly.

From Michael Clapham. YOUR editorial (JEP 14 December) eloquently expressed the dismay and disbelief of all of us who truly care for this Island. Ben Quérée’s column on Saturday was equally persuasive and telling in his indictment of the misguided 25. In emails I had sent to about 20 States Members at the beginning of […]

So it turns out that quite a lot of people have got A Philip Ozouf Story.

From David Rotherham. THE widespread perceptions of inappropriate self-indulgence that are attaching to Sir Philip Bailhache’s ‘fact-finding’ foreign visits have deflected attention from a more fundamental reason why these trips are a poor use of public money. For all that Sir Philip claims to be receiving very useful briefings, his status as a visiting official […]

From Barrie Bertram. IN letters to the editor (JEP, 25 April), Mr Chick Anthony presents a very good argument for the Channel Islands to be regarded as a World Heritage Site based upon the presence of fortifications over the last 3,000 or 4,000 years or even more. Mr Anthony is right in saying that La […]