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Interesting this: there is talk elsewhere that we may be on the verge of another Roaring Twenties — like that which followed the 1918 flu pandemic. Well, we can but hope; and note, I underscore elsewhere. Such talk is apparently fuelled by the belief...

One of the best descriptions that I ever came across on the challenge of writing a column came from Pulitzer prize winning columnist Russell Baker of New York Times fame : it is like having to perform ballet in a telephone booth, he wrote.. The tende...

Politics can be very much a matter of broad strokes, with opinions and preferences formed by impressions, relationships and histories — both family and personal. It is a factor that should be never overlooked or discounted as being of no little or no...

The late Walton Brown Jr had it right. The impetus for major reform and social justice for the longest time came not from within the legislature, but from without. He catalogued much of that history in his book, Bermuda And The Struggle For Reform: R...

The Westminster system of government often comes in for its fair share of criticism in recent times — here and elsewhere. True, it is not perfect, and I have in my time been an advocate for reform and modification to refine and build on that which en...

All nasty comments aside, perplexed readers wondered what I meant when I wrote of the need for reinvention for 2021 in my last column. Fair enough folks. It was in the context of our battle to contain and to defeat Covid-19 — where and when possible....

Looking back on 2020, no question that two big events stand out: Covid-19 and the historic landslide election victory of the Progressive Labour Party. They were not entirely unrelated. The pandemic presented the Premier with what was an unforeseen an...

Numbers are important, sure, and our number of parliamentary representatives — 47 in total — is an issue that crops up for debate every now and again. A regular reader, and good friend, very recently raised the issue after columns that I had written...

Throne Speech. The Reply. Point. Counterpoint. Now we all understand the politics of debate in the House of Assembly. Only too well. Meanwhile, outside the legislature partisans pile on with pointed comments. There’s a wonderful Arabic proverb that s...

The dust has settled on Election 2020 and, as the saying goes, the numbers don’t lie. We don’t think. Aside from the massive 24-seat victory for the Progressive Labour Party, the other equally impressive number was the number of registered voters who...