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Although the 2026 budget conveys some urgency to address the island’s unsustainable fiscal position, former deputy Bob Murray suggests that there are three prerequisites that must be addressed before any serious containment of States finances can be made.
Reader's Letters
Opinion
Why does the States find it so hard to rein in its spending? Are there no savings to be made? Peter Roffey explains why there is no simple solution to the spend/save dilemma.
Reader's Letters
Opinion
The taller half of The Long And The Short Of It podcast duo, former deputy Heidi Soulsby, flies through some of the pros and cons of having a route to Heathrow run by an external operator.

Island Life

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‘Guernsey needs some more gardening role models’
People
A year after uprooting his office life in the UK for gardening in Guernsey, Chris Jesson – Instagram’s ‘Groovy Gardener’ – is using his platform to put Guernsey’s horticultural scene on the map. Catherine Gill caught up with him to find out how he has settled in...
Island Life
Can women succeed in ‘having it all’?
Island Life
50 years of the Channel Islands Lottery
Island Life
‘I had concerns right from the beginning’