TODAY the UK Chancellor George Osborne was due to officially pull the plug on the Channel Islands’ fulfilment industry.
This is the first vote for Chief Minister in which the result isn’t a foregone conclusion
IT just could not have been less scientific. There wasn’t a lab coat or a Bunsen burner in sight – what there was, and bear with me here, was a list of 51 names with a ‘P’ or an ‘I’ marked next to each one and two numbers scrawled across the bottom.
Moving on to pastures new
SO there I was, at my second nomination meeting in as many nights, thinking the usual thoughts.
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OF all of the things that you’ll hear during the election campaign, my money’s on this one being a big hit among candidates: ‘This is the biggest election for years.’
One plus one equals nothing
HERE’S how you could tell, actually really tell, that the whole new-police-station-on-Green-Street-roundabout thing was going to go sideways.
What’s important is the work behind the scenes with horse trading and deal making
THE obvious story, the one that would be easiest to write, would be the one about how Senator Paul Routier’s declaration that he’s in the running for Chief Minister has been the match that lit off a powder keg of infighting, horse trading and political gossiping.
Let’s enjoy the fact that the election game is on and we are the ones with all the cards – for a change
IT’S that time of year again – the schools have broken up, our elected politicians are enjoying a few weeks off and anyone with a bit of sense has jetted off somewhere warm in search of summer.
Have the non-politicians got a better handle on the public interest than anyone else?
OF all the many thousands of words written over the last fortnight about phone hacking, corrupt police and Murdoch’s slightly-diminished empire, it was a point by a Times columnist that stuck in my head.
The Senatorial election is pretty much over already
GOOD news – the Senatorial election is pretty much over, bar the technical formalities of votes being cast, ballot papers being counted and results being read out.
I was born here – but I am, not to put too fine a point on it, mostly an immigrant
IMMIGRATION. Now that, reader, is how to start a column. No messing, no dithering, no clowning around – straight in with the incendiary stuff.
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