SPAWN SPOTTING
Spring weather has truly arrived and marks the start of the season for new life. Pondwatch.je are asking for your help to spot toads, frogs, and newt eggs in ponds this Easter holiday. Spend 30minutes visually looking for these eggs before sharing what you spotted or didn’t see at https://www.jerseybiodiversitycentre.org.je/pondwatch/level-1-form It’s just as important to […]
2023 LIBERATION INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Music in Action charity has announced the return of the Liberation International Music Festival in Jersey in 2023. The festival will take place from 6 – 14 May and will feature a diverse range of world-class musicians from around the globe. The festival celebrates the liberation of Jersey and the Channel Islands from German […]
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LA COTTE À LA CHÈVRE
A team of archaeologists arrive in the Island next month to begin a project to repackage and catalogue material excavated from the small Neanderthal occupation site near Grosnez, which is protected as a Listed place and provided one of the first indications that Jersey had a deep history. While they are in the Island, the […]
TOWN MOUSE AND COUNTRY MOUSE: 2023
By Gavin Ashenden Even in a small and compact island like Jersey, the culture of the town and the culture of the countryside are very different. In a well-run and sane society, they should interact in a complementary way. But the capacity for misunderstanding between the two cultures goes back a long way. In one […]
A RURAL DECADE
March 2023 marked the 10th anniversary of the first edition of RURAL magazine in March 2013. How to celebrate? With a party, of course! Contributors, sponsors, regular advertisers, members of the public who have been ‘ruraled’ at interviews and postal subscribers to the magazine were among those invited to a ‘Friends of RURAL’ celebration at […]
JERSEY ISLAND SINGERS PERFORM RUTTER’S MAGNIFICAT
FROM UTMOST EAST TO UTMOST WEST
A new book by Colonel John Blashford-Snell, CBE. Reviewed by Alasdair Crosby ‘DO you know about Atlantis?’ I think it was the first words that Colonel John Blashford-Snell, CBE (Jersey’s eminent explorer) said to me, after the usual introductory pleasantries. This conversation must have taken place in the 1990s, in the old JEP building at […]
WHAT IS POLITICAL CONSERVATISM?
‘It is the only political force that can stop or, more realistically, slow down the juggernaut of modernity’, states our columnist, Alexander Boot, But he means ‘small c’ political conservatism, not Westminster political party Conservatism. Alexander is a columnist and public speaker, and a regular visitor to Jersey where he has family connections. See biographical […]
SPRING FLOWER SHOW
The Spring Flower Show of the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society was held last weekend, 18 and 19 March, in appropriately warm and sunny spring weather. Results are as follows: Award Awarded For Winner Belles Fleurs TrophyKindly donated by Mr & Mrs Bernard Rebours Overall Best Exhibit at the Spring Show Stephen Le FeuvreGroup […]
THE STATE, FREEDOM AND FIRE
By Gavin Ashenden It was Ronald Reagan who summed it up best when he said that the top most terrifying words in the English language were ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ One of the most striking changes in our experience is the way in which the government and the state had […]