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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.

From Robert and Astrid Kisch WE write in support of Meridian’s final suggestion (JEP, 29 May) that Jersey’s official anthem be ‘Beautiful Jersey’ by Mr Lindsay Lennox as sung by Sadie Rennard on occasion. It seems that crowd reactions to the designated stately, if not sombre, hymn-like composition is self explanatory when compared to ‘Beautiful […]

From Len Vautier. ONCE again I hear that the national anthem for Jersey is to be discussed and, am I right is saying, to be decided by the States? I have spoken to the composer of the present anthem and told him that I am not trying to alter what was voted for. All I […]

OFFICIAL anthems can be problematical. God Save the Queen, for example, might strike a chord in patriotic British hearts, but few would claim that it has the raw power of Wales’s Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau or France’s Marseillaise.

ANYONE visiting the Island for the first time last week could have easily been mistaken into assuming that they had walked onto the set of Father Ted.