Tony's Musings

I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve cr...

As we approach Remembrance Sunday, let us not forget those who died, and the traumatic experience of those who fought in the Great War......

I'm evidently not the only one to be disgruntled by anonymous commenters who just basically use a blog as a board for posting insults....

May Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973) was a British poet who was active in World War I. Although she is not as well known today as other war poe...

Here is another extract from Norman Le Brocq's history of the working class in Jersey. It is the post-war era, and the agriculture now...

Now Geoff Southern has put forward a proposal to peg GST until 2012, the battle lines are drawn. Of course I think that Deputy Southern has...

Senator Sarah Ferguson raised the issue of the Island's defense contribution to the UK recently on BBC Radio Jersey, so I thought it an ...

Bonfire night. Once around this time, the Celtic cross-quarter day, the Irish chiefs and tribes gathered, lit fires, feasted. Later, it wa...

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of ...

I have already heard reports of fireworks being let of outside on housing estate close to a children's playground this year. And last Su...

Mike Jackson was recently asked about the work to be done on the Promenade to provide a "back route" for emergency vehicles to t...

The problem of high rents in Jersey and how it should be controlled is problematic. A free market means that the rent soars towards those mo...

Last week's episode of "The Sarah Jane Adventures" brought back old companion Jo Grant (now Jo Jones), as someone who left the...

A Meditation for Samhain / Halloween... Thin Places   Dusk comes, and in the evening light, the stars begin to shine. I look up and see th...

As All Souls or Halloween approaches, a reflection on life and death... Gravestone   A final word laid down to rest Memory awakes, a name...

BBC Radio 4's documentary programme looked this week at tax matters, and in particular, how large corporations manage to re-arrange thei...

If a man, his wife, and two children, all go out in the streets selling, they breakfast before starting, and perhaps agree to re-assemble ...