THE worst kind of joke is the one that backfires on the teller, as Guernsey’s Deputy Chief Minister discovered last week.
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Home affair is a shade illegal
November 20, 2008 – 3:00 pm
HENRY Ford’s famous strategy of selling Model Ts ‘in any colour you want as long as it’s black’ started the worldwide boom in car ownership.
Elections? Let’s just follow Uncle Sam
November 13, 2008 – 3:00 pm
IT is a rare human being who can, for a few precious moments, hold humanity in his hands and move mankind forward to a new era.
It’s good to talk – but it can be expensive
November 6, 2008 – 3:00 pm
LAST week was a depressing time for consultants, cormorants, marquee providers, brides and their grooms and a lord of the manor.
Gloom, doom, and silver linings
October 30, 2008 – 3:00 pm
YOU don’t have to be a poet to wax lyrical about the many simple pleasures that autumn — the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness — brings.
A bridge? Yes, nice joke, Freddie…
October 23, 2008 – 3:00 pm
HAVE you ever wondered ab-out the purpose of CCTV cameras? The BBC espion-age drama ‘Spooks’ would have us believe that such devices are here, there and everywhere not to help reduce crime and make the streets safe. Rather, they record our every move to aid MI5 agents, the CIA and the Man from Uncle in […]
An architectural winner, at last …
October 16, 2008 – 3:00 pm
AT last a Jersey building has won a national award – but it is unlikely that anyone will bother to collect it.
A Cornish cure for election fever
October 9, 2008 – 3:00 pm
THE old wives were wrong. Rather than ‘feeding a cold and starving a fever’, the only surefire remedy against potentially life-threatening flu is an annual jab.
Ladies’ day? No way – let’s just be smart
October 2, 2008 – 3:00 pm
FEMALE politicians have been grabbing the headlines around the world of late, as first Hillary Clinton and now Sarah Palin dominate the race for the White House.
Suddenly, I have a tunnel vision
POLITICAL spinmeisters with Mach-iavellian tendencies know only too well that if you want to bury a story, you release the news on a day when the media is distracted.