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THE space allotted to this column is far too short to list all of the good things about the Blue Note Bar in Broad Street. That’s a shame, because I could write at Tolstoyesque length on this subject – about the beer, about the music, about the strange and slightly frightening ornaments, about the new stools…

IN common with teachers, States Members enjoy long holidays. Also in common with teachers, Members would say that their work does not cease when they are on leave – the conscientious in both camps look, respectively, towards preparation and constituency or departmental affairs.

ALTHOUGH I stopped going to auction sales ages ago, when Herself decreed that we should be disposing of junk rather than buying loads more, I still take a passing

IF there’s anything less likely to cause a full-blown debate in the old lads’ corner of the pub than a discussion about the relative merits of the States police and their honorary counterparts, I’ve yet to learn of it.

Imagine, if you will, the leader of the free world rising early in the White House, listening attentively to his morning security briefing, defusing a burgeoning crisis in Mexico during a fraught phone call over coffee, and heading to his first morning appointment.

LAST week’s States sitting was like some awful, twisted version of The X Factor – 53 politicians all striving to make the biggest possible hash of the fairly straightforward tasks in front of them.