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YOU can bet your life that when the priest says during the wedding ceremony ‘… and if any person here present knows any lawful reason why these two should not be joined in wedlock …’, he’s got one particular answer in mind.

THERE’S a great quote from the West Wing that I often think of when I’m sitting in the States. President Jed Bartlett’s grouchy chief of staff, Leo McGarry, turns to an assistant and says: ‘There are two things that people don’t want to see being made – laws and sausages.’

IN case you were wondering how the God of Bad News was going to top the structural deficits, cash crises and dwindling pensions fund, there was only ever going to be one answer.

LONG debates bring out the worst in States Members. Take Transport Minister Mike Jackson, for example. He’s not a particularly mean or vicious man — certainly less so than some of his colleagues in the Chamber.

From Ray McCredie. BEFORE we know it, Senator Philip Ozouf will be installed as the Island’s third Chief Minister. This is as certain as death or taxes. I suspect that Senator Terry Le Sueur is merely keeping the seat warm for him and he will be artificially placed in this position by a handful of […]

IN the matter of political representation, I couldn’t be luckier. While some people have just two representatives to call on – a Constable and a Deputy – I have five.

IT was perhaps inevitable that with so much attention being focused on parliamentary expense claims in the UK, the subject would, sooner or later, also be highlighted in this Island.