Alan Le Breton « « This Is Jersey

Yesterday’s good idea is tomorrow’s nightmare

IT’S disarming how often what may seem like a good idea when you wake up in the morning degenerates into a nightmare by bedtime.

With tourism, it all comes down to providing guests with value for their money before we take it off them

IT’S a general preoccupation, isn’t it, after the last cracker has been pulled, for us to turn our attention to the next opportunity for rest and recreation – namely the summer escape on annual holidays.

So, no removal vans parked outside our equivalent of the back door to No 10 Downing Street, but a whole list of reforms to be considered

I suppose I stopped understanding the logic of politics when my wife casually asked: ‘Why do doctors, nurses and industry professionals need skills training to practise their profession, when politicians can come off the street and set about running the government of the country?’

It is natural that an Island with finite resources should be concerned about an ever-growing population

It’s a funny thing isn’t it, that when we feel depressed and hard done by, we waste little time in blaming external influences and those we feel are out to exploit us, steal our jobs, take advantage of our generosity, as if we were constantly surrounded by preying wolves.

Despite what the Daily Mail might think, Britain is not turning its back on Christianity

I’M a little concerned about Christmas this year. Not because in the view of supermarkets and the advertising

Awarding ever more A grades at A-Level and the plethora of non-core subjects compromise any meaningful comparison

WHAT do VCJ, AQA and OFFA have in common? A quick unscrambling of the initials will reveal that they all have a lot to do with education.

In today’s cut-throat world of competition, collaboration can indeed seem heretical

Two ants, freshly marooned in a puddle rapidly filling with rain-water will cooperate to manoeuvre a leaf or twig to effect an escape – though the first out never glances back.

Parents, by their own admission, compensate for family time by buying toys, gadgets and clothes

Maybe she’d had a bad day at pre-school, didn’t want to be there at all, eaten something that disagreed with her or had been deprived of a ‘treat’ , the venom with which the diminutive pigtailed diva laid into her designer carrier-bag laden mother in front of the lift at Sand street car park last [...]

At least 82 candidates are sufficiently energised to have thrown their hats in the ring

Well, they’re under starter’s orders. If it were sheep, they’d be in the pen; racehorses, and it’ll be the collecting ring.

In the ‘war on terror’, the overwhelming desire to hit back against the perpetrators led to long-held principles of warfare becoming blurred

IN a few days’ time we’ll be reflecting on a momentous anniversary. 11 September 2001, better known in its American form as 9/11, has been dubbed by contemporary historians, newspaper columnists and politicians as ‘the day that changed the world’.