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Polite almost, but not quite, to the point of rudeness … it was a real joy to behold

HAVING read the recent letter from Monica Conlan about selfish parking – though I admit that I don’t recall reading the one she was responding to – I too get extremely irate when I see perfectly able-bodied people parking in places reserved for those less fortunate.

This most certainly isn’t the time for voters to be messing about with the untried or the untested

HAVING just read some of the online comments about last Wednesday’s series of elections to the Big House, I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter what the outcome of the democratic process, someone will always call ‘foul’ if a particular result doesn’t suit them.

These days, virtually everything our elected representatives say is treated with cynicism, disbelief and downright contempt

THERE are occasions, admittedly perhaps few and far between, when even someone like me feels the urge to spring to the defence of one of that lot in the Big House and an online comment on the article about pensioners feeling the pinch gave me the opportunity to do it again.

Jersey would be a better place if the decision makers took some free advice from the grey brigade

ALTHOUGH age brings all sorts of complications – I get a little breathless walking round the lanes, even with a bit of French apple juice in my system, and sometimes I forget a few things She asks me to get from the Co-op – it also gives you certain satisfaction that you’ve seen it all [...]

Maybe it’s time to campaign to get making our streets safe onto the election trail agenda

I HAVE read this newspaper almost ever since I can remember and well recall it being a broadsheet, which meant that, in my younger days at least, the easiest place for me to give it the attention it merited was on the floor in front of the fire.

Maybe one day we’ll have an Assembly full of ability rather than one that wastes our time

ELECTION time is when the pub not far from Chez Clement really comes into its own. That’s not to say that the corner regularly occupied by the Last of the Summer Wine crowd – all of a certain age and most of us fortunately still with all the marbles, although perhaps in some cases not [...]

The prison has set a benchmark other government departments would be delighted to achieve

AS my old granny used to say when talking about what they used to call ‘bad apples’, if you buy a dozen eggs and two of them are cracked, do you stop buying eggs?

A wealthy immigrant might take the geese off our hands in exchange for a housing licence

NOW, said Herself as she returned from another scavenging trip to de Gruchy’s sale rail with two of her mates, there’s a nice little piece you can write about this week.

If we are employing highly paid people, why are we asking fhe public to do their work for them?

SOMEONE is sure to be able to tell me, although they’ll probably argue that researching it would be a waste of valuable civil service time, what the gross salary packages for the upper echelons of the States hired help actually cost us a year.

The time for comment and speculation about what lies at the root of this tragedy is after the legal processes have been completed, not before

THESE days it’s never easy to introduce a bit of levity into this column, and given the tragic events of eight days ago, in common with the huge majority of this shell-shocked community, I’m really in no mood to try.