Being an inquiry into a joke first told in Oz, a wedding of 1002, an invoice of 1778, an island that declined to join in, and the events of this week; with a title the Department has had to amend in every chapter.
The French are not always revolting. They are, however, unusually reluctant to regard an election as the final opportunity to express an opinion, and keep a book of grievances in a drawer for the purpose. Jersey agrees in principle, while reserving its constitutional position and requesting that the College stop calling it British.
The joke’s history, the events from 1229 to this week, the figures, the statements of ministers and students and the poll are real and referenced, and where a source corrects a popular belief the paper follows the source. The College, the Revolt Classification Office, the Bursar’s invoices and the findings are fiction. This month’s protests have injured hundreds of people, most of them teenagers; the paper reports that plainly and does not joke about it, nor about the Terror.
