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HAVING just read some of the online comments about last Wednesday’s series of elections to the Big House, I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter what the outcome of the democratic process, someone will always call ‘foul’ if a particular result doesn’t suit them.

WHATEVER the outcome of Monday’s election for Chief Minister, a new beginning for the States is assured and a change of direction likely, with far-reaching consequences of obvious significance for all of us.

You could see it, feel it even. There was no escaping it: excitement. It was in their smiles, their giggles and their all too eager eyes. It hung around them like clouds of cheap perfume at a school disco and clung to them like the smell of freshly chopped onions in a hot sweaty kitchen.

I HAVE read this newspaper almost ever since I can remember and well recall it being a broadsheet, which meant that, in my younger days at least, the easiest place for me to give it the attention it merited was on the floor in front of the fire.

From Ariel Whatmore. OVER the last few years we have had constant negative and unconstructive attacks on several aspects of Jersey life from John Christensen in his capacity as a director of the Tax Justice Network. For a short period he was employed as an economic adviser to the States. He has since lived in […]

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 […]