AFTER all the storms that raged around the chief minister election, last week’s was a quiet affair.

IF the last week of politicising is anything to go by, we are in for something of a wild ride over the next four years.

It was an election with a difference, the first where social media such as  Twitter, Facebook and Audioboo started to have a real impact. Nick Mann, @mannoguernsey on Twitter, spoke to some of the candidates about its effect this time and how they see it being used in future…

THERE is nothing like a general election to reinvigorate people’s interests in politics after they drifted away in disillusionment as the previous four years progressed.

With islanders going to the polls tomorrow to elect a new Assembly, Nick Mann takes a look back on the key recorded votes of the last four years…

GENERAL ELECTIONS must once have been such dull affairs.

Chancellor George Osborne was accused by the tabloid press of imposing a ‘granny tax’ in his Budget. But coping financially with an ageing population is an issue the island has to face and Nick Mann says there are some equally uncomfortable decisions to be taken by local politicians.

LAST week’s LVCR decision has  far-reaching implications.

As thoughts turn to the legacy the present incumbents will leave behind, Nick Mann considers just what the future holds for the next States members.

THIS WEEK promises to be key in local politics as members sit for the last time before the General Election.

IT HAS been said that one of the greatest tricks the devil ever pulled was persuading the world that he did not exist.

To help spark some ideas, news editor Nick Mann takes readers through what he thinks the key election issues will be in 2012…