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SO that’s sorted then. In case anyone was in any doubt, it’s essentially fine for a minister to pester the Law Officers to drop a prosecution against someone who has donated to his campaign costs for decades, and then to plead with the Royal Court to go easy when it comes to sentencing.

ESSENTIAL though they might have been as a means of controlling excessive immigration, Jersey’s housing laws have never been fully satisfactory. Indeed, from the point of view of the many Islanders without full residential qualifications, they have been the dividing line between full membership of the community and a sort of social limbo.

From Raie Binet. MAY I thank Deputy Paul Le Claire, who I do not know, for his letter to you (JEP, 7 Jun) in which he states what many of us feel about the long service to the public of former Housing Minister Senator Terry Le Main. It is unfortunate that his career at Housing […]

FROM the foothills of ideas, through the base camps of suggestions, up the long ascent of debate – stopping off briefly at the bivouac of consultation – to the pinnacle of policy. It’s a long hard climb, enough to separate men from boys, mice and sometimes marbles.

WHENEVER I write about our neighbours in the colonies I tend to feel a bit like one of the boy Le Main’s critics who are in the direct firing line of his ‘stop picking on me’ plea.

WHENEVER I write about our neighbours in the colonies I tend to feel a bit like one of the boy Le Main’s critics who are in the direct firing line of his ‘stop picking on me’ plea.