HOLMSEY: Islanders should be angry
Press ReleaseI always try to be nice, but not today. Today I can’t be friendly because I’m frustrated and angry about…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Taxing issues for entrepreneurs…
Jesus encouraged the well-off to open their hands to the poor. He said they should rejoice in the blessings they…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Learning from the USA
Learning from the USA While we were watching those incredibly dignified scenes from London last weekend, 25 Leicester city-based police…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Have no regrets
Have no regrets Do you ever wonder what you’ve already done for the last time? My adorable granddaughter, Audrey, just…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Auntie’ gone woke
When did you last hear the Julie Covington song ‘Only Women Bleed’ on the radio? It’s rumoured the song goes…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Listen to the people
IW Observer.co.ukT’was the morning after the night before, the Conservative party had tanked in not one but two dismal by-elections. Bob…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: The death of cash
In my youth, every penny I had to my name was kept in my hip pocket. You couldn’t do it…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Bob’s wretched fortnight
Let’s be clear, in some people’s minds a bag full of cash need not be a bung, and fibbing isn’t…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Goodbye dad
In an ideal world, those we love would never suffer; in an ideal world, those we love would go on…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Winfall for the public?
Boris and Rishi have become the Laurel and Hardy of British politics. By now even the most carefree person with…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Holiday hardships
It wasn’t so long ago that working people didn’t take holidays and, with inflation at 10 per cent, they may…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Keeping up with the news
My holiday to America was over all too soon; just moments after departing Heathrow, I was back, to join the…
Read MoreQUIGGERS: I’m ferry worked up!
Due to an unforeseen incident in aisle 11 of the Croydon Sainsbury’s, Mr H is still away. The good news…
Read MoreQUIGGERS: The energy conundrum
‘The David’, as he is known on some parts of his desk, is indulging in his love of extreme sports.…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Parenting is tough!
All parents worry, but when Anthony Minghella won his Oscar for The English Patient, I told my kids that growing…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Paying tax is for the little people – not them!
It’s pretty common in the funeral business to have a family name over the door, even if the original owners…
Read More