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Why we pay tax in Jersey, what we get for it, and whether any of it is building the Island's future Every Islander pays into a bargain they were never handed to sign. We surrender a slice of our inco...
When Lyndon Farnham named his Council of Ministers at the end of June, he defended his choices — several of them familiar faces returning to portfolios they'd held before — explicitly on the basis of ...
Buyers and sellers are being hit with eleventh-hour instructions to separate surface water from foul sewers, sometimes a day or two before their contract is due to pass before the Royal Court. With no clear right of appeal, and a legal grandfather clause that appears to protect many of the very properties being targeted, is the Infrastructure department using its position in the conveyancing chain to enforce a policy the law itself doesn't require?
Every time Jersey elects a new Council of Ministers, the clock starts on one of the least-noticed but most structurally important obligations in the Island's constitution. Under Article 18(2)(e) of th...
The Jersey Audit Office has given Revenue Jersey a largely positive report, praising its governance, management and major transformation projects. But while the audit concludes the Island's tax office...
This morning, with the final appointments made, Jersey's new Council of Ministers took office — and Senator Lyndon Farnham formally assumed his role as Chief Minister.
Hitler and Stalin are sitting in the bar in Hell ...("Beelzebub's" for those of you looking for a watering hole in later life ) and arguing who was the most unpopular politician ever , "has to me said...
Defending his ministerial line-up to the Jersey Evening Post this week, the Chief Minister reached for a principle that sounds unimpeachable. "It's important that the new government reflects the make-...
On Monday, Jersey's 49 elected Members will decide who will form the next Council of Ministers. Much of the attention will be on the Chief Minister's nominations. But there is another part of the pr...
The list is out, and it landed almost exactly where we said it would. At 9:30 this morning, a week after he was confirmed unopposed, Lyndon Farnham named the team he wants to run Jersey for the next f...
At 9:30 tomorrow morning, Friday 26 June, Lyndon Farnham must publish the names of the people he wants to run Jersey for the next four years. His proposed Council of Ministers will be put to the Assembly on Monday 29 June, when each ministry is filled by a vote and other members may put themselves forward against his choices. It is the most consequential list the new Chief Minister will produce, and the question hanging over it is a simple one. Will this be a government chosen for who is best equipped to run each department — or a government chosen to reward the people who won an island-wide mandate?
Jersey returned nine island-wide Senators this month for the first time since 2018: Helen Miles, Ian Gorst, Lyndon Farnham, Elaine Millar, Serena Kersten Guthrie, Tom Binet, Alan Maclean, Sir Mark Boleat and Mary Le Hégarat. With Farnham himself in the dock, that left eight Senators on the benches. Between them, in public, they asked nothing. Not one question. Not one challenge. Not one request for clarification put on the record for Islanders to hear.
The States Assembly today sat to elect Jersey's next Chief Minister, with the only candidate being Senator-Elect Lyndon Farnham addressing Members with a statement of intent before facing an hour of questions that tested, probed and occasionally punctured the vision he had set out. What emerged was a picture of a politician of considerable experience and political skill, navigating the gap between ambition and commitment with varying degrees of success.
Most people who voted in Jersey's 2026 election last week will wake up on Friday morning knowing very little about what happens next. They will have heard that a new States Assembly has been elected, that there will be a Chief Minister, Ministers and Scrutiny Panels. But the process by which all of that is decided, the speeches, the votes, the deals, the anxiety, is largely invisible to the public.
Lyndon Farnham will be confirmed as Jersey's Chief Minister for a second time on Friday 19 June — not by a vote, but by default.
To understand why Jersey's government has an accountability problem, you need to go back to January 2018, and a proposition lodged by then Chief Minister Senator Ian Gorst that most Islanders never heard of.
Environment Minister Steve Luce ruled on two major planning appeals — clearing 29 flats in St Clement and dismissing residents' objections to 128 homes in St Peter — in the days either side of losing his States seat, raising questions about decision-making during Jersey's election period.
