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FOR several years there has been a great deal of lip service paid to the idea of greater co-operation and co-ordination between the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. Alas, tangible results have, to date, been sparse.

THERE is one thing that Jersey politicians, both past and present, are pretty good at, and that is talking. They like proposing ideas, submitting propositions, debating them, arguing about them, amending them, withdrawing them, rejecting them and, even sometimes, approving them. Basically, they like talking about things – a lot.

From John Mesch, Council for the Protection of Jersey’s Heritage. IT never ceases to surprise me that States representatives with good Jersey names, such as Deputy Gerard Baudains (JEP, 30 July), do not understand what makes up their cultural heritage and why they have both a moral and legal obligation to safeguard it for future […]

IMAGINE, for a moment, that you were to go into your place of work tomorrow morning and decide that you just weren’t willing to even speak to some of the people there.

It emerged last week, thanks to a question in the States from Senator Sarah Ferguson, that the Treasury is currently looking for a new public relations contractor. It has a budget of up to £60,000 and wants to pay a PR company to explain complex issues clearly and simply to the public.

UNLIKE most of the rest of us, Jersey’s politicians never tire of discussing one of their favourite subjects: themselves and the way they go about their business.