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Eyes tend to glaze over when discussing how the operation of the Legislature might be improved. I understand. It isn’t a high priority for a lot of people and it doesn’t make for the sexiest news. But the importance of reform on the Hill is starting ...

View from Off the Hill Sixes and fours, bumpers, googlies and spin. It’s Cup Match folks and not another day on the Hill. That also means it’s a short week so I will stick with a little quick line and length, which is never a bad approach off and on...

Status for investment in lieu of austere measures is arguably a clever and compelling way of framing the argument. Austerity is not proving that popular in any number of jurisdictions, let alone here, and there is growing doubt as to its efficacy in ...

You can’t beat the wit of Oscar Wilde. “I live in constant fear of not being misunderstood”, he once lamented. Of course Mr Wilde was no politician. Politicians have the opposite lament: they want to be always understood whatever they say however the...

Talking of modernising the Legislature, I was very recently reminded of that great line from the movie ‘Network’ when TV anchorman Peter Finch encourages thousands of his viewers to throw open their windows and shout in unison like him: “I am mad as ...

Watchdogs or lapdogs? If asked, Mr Acting Editor, I’m pretty sure I know which role the voting public would prefer their MPs play on the Hill. There is no good reason why backbench MPs, i.e. those who do not sit Cabinet, should be reduced only to voi...

Riddle me this, Mr Acting Editor, as we reflect on the recent equal rights debate. How is it that those who espouse tolerance, exhibit so little for those who have views with which they disagree? I am not just talking about reported exchanges on the ...

The dreaded i-word was bound to come up, I suppose Mr Acting Editor. It was too good an opportunity for some to pass up on the opportunity to revive the issue of independence for Bermuda. I suppose too, that like clocks that have stopped ticking, it ...

Forget Commission. Sage advice was required. Like that of a former colleague of mine who, whenever we found ourselves in difficulty, used to love to remind us of the advice he received from a wily veteran before him: If you are in a hole, put down th...