Credit where credit's due

Perhaps I'll take a break from bashing the Press today.

Firstly, last Saturday's cover, featuring Jason Duncombe providing us with a delightful enumeration, via the medium of his middle digits, of the precise number of braincells he posesses, was outstanding. All credit to the photographer for getting the shot (I'd have been too incensed to have had the presence of mind to press the shutter button), and to the editors for turning it into Guernsey's very own 'Up Yours Delors'.

El Ed has defended it as 'exposing' the yob culture. To be honest, I don't think that defence is even necessary. It's sufficient that the photo shows, at a glance, precisely what kind of person Duncombe is, in a way that a dry court report couldn't possibly do. It's only a shame the photo hasn't been immortalised in the online version of the article.

And secondly, Nigel Baudains' report today on the anti-mast lobby group's hijacking of Al Brouard's public meeting comes as a great relief. Without taking sides, the Press has finally managed to come up with some much-needed critical reporting on the attitudes and approach of this group's hysterically irrational hardcore members.

Anyway, enough of this praise, normal service will be resumed shortly. I haven't got started yet on the Press's tendency to report staff mishaps as earth-shattering news...