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	<title>This Is Jersey &#187; Ben Quérée &#187; This Is Jersey</title>
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		<title>The fulfilment issue is both political and personal, and that’s when things get nasty</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/news/comment/2011/12/06/the-fulfilment-issue-is-both-political-and-personal-and-that%e2%80%99s-when-things-get-nasty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY the UK Chancellor George Osborne was due to officially pull the plug on the Channel Islands’ fulfilment industry.]]></description>
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		<title>This is the first vote for Chief Minister in which the result isn’t a foregone conclusion</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/news/comment/2011/11/01/this-is-the-first-vote-for-chief-minister-in-which-the-result-isn%e2%80%99t-a-foregone-conclusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/news/comment/2011/11/01/this-is-the-first-vote-for-chief-minister-in-which-the-result-isn%e2%80%99t-a-foregone-conclusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Moving on to pastures new</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/09/13/moving-on-to-pastures-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SO there I was, at my second nomination meeting in as many nights, thinking the usual thoughts.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Week in Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/09/06/a-week-in-politics-77/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.’]]></description>
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		<title>One plus one equals nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/08/30/one-plus-one-equals-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>What’s important is the work behind the scenes with horse trading and deal making</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/08/23/whats-important-is-the-work-behind-the-scenes-with-horse-trading-and-deal-making/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/08/23/whats-important-is-the-work-behind-the-scenes-with-horse-trading-and-deal-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s enjoy the fact that the election game is on and we are the ones with all the cards – for a change</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/08/09/lets-enjoy-the-fact-that-the-election-game-is-on-and-we-are-the-ones-with-all-the-cards-%e2%80%93-for-a-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/08/09/lets-enjoy-the-fact-that-the-election-game-is-on-and-we-are-the-ones-with-all-the-cards-%e2%80%93-for-a-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Have the non-politicians got a better handle on the public interest than anyone else?</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/07/19/have-the-non-politicians-got-a-better-handle-on-the-public-interest-than-anyone-else/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/07/19/have-the-non-politicians-got-a-better-handle-on-the-public-interest-than-anyone-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>The Senatorial election is pretty much over already</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/07/12/the-senatorial-election-is-pretty-much-over-already/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/07/12/the-senatorial-election-is-pretty-much-over-already/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>I was born here – but I am, not to put too fine a point  on it, mostly an immigrant</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/07/05/i-was-born-here-%e2%80%93-but-i-am-not-to-put-too-fine-a-point-on-it-mostly-an-immigrant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/07/05/i-was-born-here-%e2%80%93-but-i-am-not-to-put-too-fine-a-point-on-it-mostly-an-immigrant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMMIGRATION. Now that, reader, is how to start a column. No messing, no dithering, no clowning around – straight in with the incendiary stuff.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Correct me if I’m wrong&#8230; but could there be an election somewhere on the horizon?</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/06/14/correct-me-if-im-wrong-but-could-there-be-an-election-somewhere-on-the-horizon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/06/14/correct-me-if-im-wrong-but-could-there-be-an-election-somewhere-on-the-horizon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAN buys dog. Man feeds dog, strokes dog, trains dog. Man carefully shuts dog inside house, takes lead, attaches it to a collar around his own neck, goes down the park and throws stick in the air and catches it in his mouth. Repeats. Man goes home, pats dog, and sits down in front of the telly.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Every now and then a States Member lands on an issue  that gets people engaged, and school fees is a good example</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/06/07/every-now-and-then-a-states-member-lands-on-an-issue-that-gets-people-engaged-and-school-fees-is-a-good-example/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/06/07/every-now-and-then-a-states-member-lands-on-an-issue-that-gets-people-engaged-and-school-fees-is-a-good-example/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OF all the reasons to want to be the Education Minister – presumably there are some, although for the moment they escape me entirely – you might imagine that wanting to defend your right to cut school budgets would not be one.]]></description>
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		<title>The culture of the States is alien to the idea of saving money</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/06/01/the-culture-of-the-states-is-alien-to-the-idea-of-saving-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/06/01/the-culture-of-the-states-is-alien-to-the-idea-of-saving-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOT being an expert in the fields of human resources management or accountancy, I almost feel ashamed to say this, but isn’t there just the slightest possibility that instead of giving £800,000 to two departing civil servants, we could have (and bear with me here) not done that, but instead spent the money on something else?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The most that ministers are doing by winning exemption vote is delaying the inevitable</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/05/25/the-most-that-ministers-are-doing-by-winning-exemption-vote-is-delaying-the-inevitable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/05/25/the-most-that-ministers-are-doing-by-winning-exemption-vote-is-delaying-the-inevitable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 06:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THERE he sat, fully bent over the desk, head resting in his arms.]]></description>
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		<title>It’s not the head that keeps on funding, say, the teaching of Jèrriais – it’s the heart</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/05/17/its-not-the-head-that-keeps-on-funding-say-the-teaching-of-jerriais-%e2%80%93-its-the-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2011/05/17/its-not-the-head-that-keeps-on-funding-say-the-teaching-of-jerriais-%e2%80%93-its-the-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Quérée</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT’S the eternal dilemma. You know how it goes: the head says ‘salad’, the heart says ‘cheeseburger’.]]></description>
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