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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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

THERE he sat, fully bent over the desk, head resting in his arms.

IT’S the eternal dilemma. You know how it goes: the head says ‘salad’, the heart says ‘cheeseburger’.

WAY off north, further even than Guernsey, there’s trouble. You might have read about it. Turns out two bunches of people who don’t agree on politics, who don’t like each other and who have spent much of the last 20 years shouting at each other got together a year ago to set up a government.

IT seems like there’s a bit of a theme emerging from this week’s news, so let’s go with it.

ANOTHER year, another big, scary and depressing set of numbers from the Social Security department.

THANK you Ian Gorst. Just … thank you. It seemed that this 2011 election, what with its GST on food, and its school milk, and its coastal developments all seemed so dull, so familiar and so boring. So very 2008.

ASK yourself – what’s the point? I mean, really. Is it getting you anywhere? Achieving much? Making anyone’s life better?