WHAT have the States done? Well, firstly, they have obviously carried out the sharpest and most baffling U-turn in their history.
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The issues that defy resolution
February 22, 2010 – 2:30 pm
WHAT is it that turns some issues into ’causes celebres’ in the States? There are two main factors. The first is that they are inherently important matters, worthy of long and spirited debate in our community and the States.
Inconvenient truth
February 16, 2010 – 2:30 pm
THE States employees’ pension scheme has been much criticised in recent months. Many people think it’s unaffordable and risks undermining the medium-term financial integrity of the island.
Strike force
February 2, 2010 – 2:30 pm
IN SHAKESPEARE’S rather sexist play The Taming of the Shrew an independently-minded woman is finally broken in spirit and forced to agree that the sun is really the moon, despite the evidence of her own eyes.
Faith in Public Services the burning issue
February 1, 2010 – 2:30 pm
PUBLIC SERVICES won the minds if not the hearts of deputies when it proposed the Suez waste plant.
Between a rock and a hard place…
January 25, 2010 – 3:02 pm
THE decision by the Assembly and Constitution Committee to recommend all 45 deputies be elected, island-wide, at one time, is either very naive or very Machiavellian.
Burning issue
January 19, 2010 – 2:30 pm
ANOTHER year, another waste disposal debate. I am not naive enough to think that anything I write here will influence many people. Most minds are already made up. Islanders either favour a particular solution or, at the very least, they know what they don’t want.
Crystal ball gazing spies a more farcical future
January 12, 2010 – 3:30 pm
LAST week I made some serious predictions about the year ahead for Guernsey and its government. This week I thought it was time to do a bit of crystal ball gazing, with my tongue firmly in my cheek.
The year of spending safely
January 5, 2010 – 3:30 pm
HERE we are in 2010 and, politically, there’s a tough year in store. Over the next 12 months there will be very many difficult and unpopular decisions for our deputies to take. My New Year’s resolution is to give them an easier time – and just like cutting down on red wine, I’m unlikely to [...]
Suez 21 should prove themselves
WHAT to make of the latest development in the incinerator saga? Last month the States did the most abrupt U-turn in their history.