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A change is as good as a rest, Mr Editor, so this week a break from my usual. Everyone wants more and few among us desire less. As a general rule I think that’s pretty true. The trouble is that it also presents a challenge in today’s economic climate...

The Bermuda Legislature is threatening to catch up to 21st century governance. I kid you not. A Joint Select Committee (JSC) is proposing an independent commission of legislators to manage the operation of both the House on the Hill and the Senate be...

The value of an independent, objective opinion is not to be underestimated, particularly perhaps in politics, and not withstanding if it is the work of a lawyer. No, Mr Editor, I am not thinking of my own. I am referring instead to the opinion of a L...

Politics will change when politicians change, one reader told me after last week’s column. He has a point. Albert Einstein put it another way: “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our th...

The devil is in the detail when it comes to the Budget and the beauty of the Budget Debate is that MPs are given the time to examine Government accounts a.k.a. the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure — and in detail should they wish. In fact, a tota...

He said, he said, all right: a good headline, Mr Editor, and a fair summation of what has become a sad, sorry spectacle. Sordid too: disclosure of the existence of a surreptitious tape recording by one MP of another, the contents of which we have yet...

There is nothing quite like a good PQ to start the day — on the Hill, that is, where parliamentary questions (PQs for short) are now a featured part of the day’s agenda. It is known as Question Period that typically comes up fairly early in the morni...