Phil Falle complains in today’s Guernsey Press that an unbroken line, which has been an integral part of Sark’s history for the last 338 years, is to be broken. … The title of seneschal was instituted by letters patent in…

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The year was 1988 and Slobodan Milošević, then little known outside Yugoslavia, was President of Serbia. “Spontaneous” protests started to arise outside parliaments of other Yugoslavian republics. The protests were mostly peaceful but clearly intended to bully and intimidate and…

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In today’s Guernsey Press, Peter Roffey writes that “the people of Sark agreed and voted for democratic reform in a historic referendum.” The opinion poll (not a referendum) which Mr. Roffey presumably refers to, which was held in 2006, asked…

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At next Wednesday’s Chief Pleas, the GP&A Committee are proposing to introduce regulation of electricity production. The Committee see it as their duty to ensure that Sark Electricity isn’t making “excess” profits “at the expense of the Community”. The Sarkee…

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So BBC Radio 4 did a report on Sark yesterday. Their reporter, Sarah Montague, told us that democracy on Sark is under threat. No kidding? And I thought the UK brought us democracy in 2008. That’s when the nice, do-gooding…

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I was glad to receive an invitation to and to be able to attend the public meeting with Belinda Crowe on 15 March 2012 at the Island Hall. I had read the letter to the editor in the 136th issue…

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