Courage play Leeds Festival
Sharing a bill with acts such as Muse, Pulp and The Strokes is a daunting task for any band, let alone a group of Guernsey lads fresh out of university.
Sharing a bill with acts such as Muse, Pulp and The Strokes is a daunting task for any band, let alone a group of Guernsey lads fresh out of university.
THERE are some issues which most politicians just won't speak about frankly in public. Things they know to be true but won't admit to knowing because they are too inherently unpopular.
ON SATURDAY Opinion suggested that islanders ought to question the value they were getting from their politicians given the paralysis that appears to exist when it comes to introducing meaningful reforms to States spending, or even given the devastating WAO report on governance, the way it conducts itself.
A SONG thrush is singing despite the heavy frost which has coated fields around the upper parishes as I write this feature.
HE'S been on the ropes all week, but it is now time to back off Matt Jennings and let the heavyweight clear his head after the shock of his drugs conviction.
AS STATES members and the business community were being briefed yesterday on the consequences of zero-10 having been torpedoed by a combination of EU hostility and politically-inspired capitulation by the UK just when it should have been representing our interests, there was one clear positive emerging from the mess.
A KIDNAP victim haunted by his ordeal launched an unprovoked attack on a teenager walking home from school.
WHEN the States decided 22 years ago to limit the number of public sector staff, it did so with five clear objectives in mind. These included the sustainability of the future cost, likely wage inflation, recruitment problems, competition with private employers and the impact on population with off-island recruitment.
OVER the last few days, the head of the UK's civil service has given a couple of rare on-the-record interviews to warn that the government faces a much tighter spending environment.
WRITING here on Saturday we highlighted some of the questionable thinking demonstrated by the States Assembly and Constitution Committee over its unjustified and self-serving recommendation that ministers should suddenly become called presidents.
A YEAR ago today the newly-elected chief minister, Lyndon Trott, set out his vision for the island's future.
THE more closely the role of the Public Sector Remuneration Committee is examined, the more questionable its operation - and purpose - becomes.
WITH Guernsey's RPI at an all-time low, islanders might have anticipated that the steadily increasing cost of government which they have to fund might, finally, start to slow.
THE start of a new year is always an opportunity for islanders to look ahead - hopefully with optimism - to the challenges and opportunities on the horizon. In the past, that has generally been an easy task for times have been good and showed no sign of letting up.
THE president of Sark's most important political committee is standing down from Chief Pleas.