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From Brendan McDonald. Dysfunctional, out of control, unhappy and ineffective was how the ex-Bailiff Sir Philip Bailhache described the present crop of States Members during the election meetings. A sweeping statement if there ever was one indicating all 53 members. I can remember the same ex-Bailiff rebuking many a State’s Member for making sweeping statements […]

From Marianne Sunier. I AM writing in response to the letter written by Don Filleul (JEP, 2 September) regarding Sir Philip Bailhache’s decision to stand as a Senatorial candidate in the forthcoming elections on 19 of October. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Mr Filleul and indeed had the privilege of […]

From Sir Philip Bailhache. THE Treasury Minister, Senator Philip Ozouf, deserves more support than he is currently getting for his resistance to the pressure from the UK Treasury on the zero-ten policy. I write that not in any partisan sense but as a lawyer with more than 30 years’ experience of the constitutional relationship between […]

From Nick Le Cornu LORD Carswell’s report into the role of the Crown Officers is a timid republican document. Its central recommendation that the Bailiff merely no longer preside as speaker of the States Assembly, is carefully crafted to the expediency of what is palatable to faint hearted States Members. The report fails, as it […]

Imagine, if you will, the leader of the free world rising early in the White House, listening attentively to his morning security briefing, defusing a burgeoning crisis in Mexico during a fraught phone call over coffee, and heading to his first morning appointment.

IT was the strangest thing: a statement that challenged the conventional wisdom in a way that I just didn’t see coming.