IT’S funny how in local politics some subjects suddenly seem to become causes celebres and generate all sorts of passionate debate, only to fade from the public gaze a short time later. Sometimes those issues return on a cyclical basis, other times they just disappear for good.

INDEPENDENCE? You decide. That was one of the clearest messages to emerge from The Jersey and Guernsey Law Review seminar last week, snappily titled Dependency or Sovereignty? Time to take stock.

THE message across the Channel Islands appears to be getting clearer – it is time to prepare for more independence.

GUERNSEY should fight for its independence.

CUTTING ties with the UK is still some way off, according to Deputy Graham Guille.

AN EXHAUSTIVE examination by Jersey’s Constitution Review Group came to the not very surprising conclusion that the island was, in any event, just one or two steps away from full independence.

A REPORT suggesting there is nothing to stop the Channel Islands from becoming independent sovereign states is to be considered today.

INDEPENDENCE from government is vital for Guernsey's finance industry.

GUERNSEY'S independence should be safe despite fears about the island's status if the UK signs the European constitution.