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From Senator Stuart Syvret. I READ with interest your comments as reported in the Jersey Evening Post of 10 February concerning States Members’ pay. You and Deputy Gorst — both very financially secure individuals — stoutly assert that States Members’ pay should be frozen. But you, in particular, are reported as going much further; effectively […]

AS I sit here staring at what a few seconds ago was a blank computer screen — reminiscent, I have to say, of a few mornings after the night before when Herself and I are on one of our regular inspections of the Calvados trees in Normandy — the so-called leaders of the 20 most financially influential nations are holding their meeting in London.

IN his own mind, but in very few other places these days, Senator Stuart Syvret is cast as a lone crusader for truth and justice, courageously challenging the dark forces of an establishment conspiracy involving more or less anyone who has incurred his displeasure.

LAST week’s gathering in the Big House may well have been an insignificant affair when compared with what was on the menu for some of the States sittings of the last few years but to this simple country boy it may well have the potential to prove one of the most expensive there has been in recent times.