Oh go on, splash out on a fountain

THERE seems to be no end to the fun things that the St Helier Constable wants to bring to our capital.


A new world order will have to wait

BEFORE all elections there is a flurry of activity and a sense of a new world order approaching.


We can’t even bank on the banks

IT is always a bit surprising just how quickly things can go wrong and the certainties of life begin to unravel.


Has our election fever gone cold?

PERHAPS being out of the Island for the past two weeks has not been the best way to get a full dose of election fever but, all the same, people do not seem exactly gripped by proceedings.


Okay candidates, answer me this …

WAYS to make the forthcoming election hustings exciting enough to draw in your average citizen will be taxing many good minds at the moment.


Ohhh, so that’s all that was wrong with it

ISN’T that funny? All this time we have been peering at the Radisson building wondering what it is that is so off-putting about and it turns out that all that is wrong is the colour.


Finance? Well, it’s simple, really …

AT last I think that I have fathomed the world of high finance and it actually seems quite simple, if unhelpful.


Lost . . . a great opportunity on exemptions

DOES hand-wringing have a sound which accompanies it?


Two hats on the head of one minister

OF all the tightropes in the States departments, one of the hardest has to be that walked by the Environment Ministry.


Will the voters stick with convictions?

IN a bizarre way you have to applaud the politicians who are keen on pursuing the imposition of a vehicle emissions duty this side of the elections.