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I HAVE always been led to believe that under the old political system – before all singing, all dancing and all virtually everything else ministers came into being – States committees were timeless entities, meaning that a decision or undertaking made or given by such a body held good, irrespective of any change of membership.

OF all of the things that you’ll hear during the election campaign, my money’s on this one being a big hit among candidates: ‘This is the biggest election for years.’

THE wait-and-see strategy adopted by the Council of Ministers appears to have paid off handsomely in respect of zero-ten, the formula at the core of the Island’s business tax regime. Contrary to the many dire warnings issued by critics, zero-ten will not have to be scrapped and will be with us for the foreseeable future.

NOT being an expert in the fields of human resources management or accountancy, I almost feel ashamed to say this, but isn’t there just the slightest possibility that instead of giving £800,000 to two departing civil servants, we could have (and bear with me here) not done that, but instead spent the money on something else?To be a bit more precise, could we not have spent it on something better? Something more worthwhile? Something that might help?

POOR old us. We can’t even get the little things right. The Brits got ‘We will fight them on the beaches’, the Yanks got ‘Nothing to fear but fear itself’ and what do we get?

THE day on which this Island was liberated after five years of enemy rule is, it must be admitted, remote in time. As we celebrate the anniversary each year, fewer and fewer people who experienced the great event remain with us.