HeyJaredBob Murray
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- Sep 17, 2026
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- Jul 29, 2026
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Bob Murray: Pinocchio and the perils of Pleasure Island (opens the original)
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‘Where could you find a better place for us boys? There’s no school there, no masters and no books. In that heavenly place, no one ever studies. There’s no school on Saturday and in every week there are six Saturdays and one Sunday. Just imagine! Now a place like that is the ideal place to live in! That’s how all civilised countries should be run.’ This was not penned by notable progressive thinkers such as Sartre or Foucault. In fact it was written for Pinocchio’s erstwhile best friend Lampwick
Bob Murray: There is no free lunch (opens the original)
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It would be convenient to trot out that old adage ‘the worst States ever’ given the polarised views this Assembly now finds itself with. However, the state of our States is a reflection of a much deeper problem going back a long time. Guernsey has lost its way. For we seem to have developed an expectation of entitlement alongside our traditional culture of independence. We are not alone in this. Most of the EU also has an unsustainable dependency upon their national governments to provide servic
Bob Murray: Invasion of the body snatchers (opens the original)
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How could this be? They’re the same people, right? But then I remembered this 1956 film widely recognised as one of the great political allegories of the 1950s. In a nutshell, some alien life form lands on earth and grows into pods which spawn exact duplicates of any human unlucky enough to fall asleep within their vicinity. Long story short, they completely take over the town. Save for one man, who eventually escapes to warn the outside world. But what if they actually did take over after all?
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