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It is not surprising that this is the time people feel the need and seize the opportunity to pile on: a shock resignation, a couple of missteps, arguable errors in judgment, poor optics, enveloped in plans and protocols that do not appear to be addre...

OMG! OMC!! Just when we were starting to convince ourselves that we had turned a corner on Covid-19, it is looking like déjà vu all over again. A Merry Christmas, you say? You for real? Cases are increasing at an alarming rate elsewhere. We see how i...

The issue of independents for Bermuda continues to surface from time to time. Mostly online, and often in reaction to the politics of the day, making it difficult to gauge whether there is any serious, growing groundswell for just such change or whet...

It’s a line I heard recently on 60 Minutes, a pronouncement from British-American political commentator and podcaster Andrew Sullivan. It struck me as having a certain ring of truth to it. While he may have been talking about politics in Washington, ...

Ho-hum, another Throne Speech marks the start of a new parliamentary session. I have seen and heard a number over the years, maybe as many as 50, dating back to my years in journalism, and even had a hand in a few, dating back to my years in governme...

As the clever old saw goes: if you want to kill an idea, even a good one, send it to a committee for study and recommendation. The tactic came to mind when the question surfaced very recently at one of those televised Covid press conferences as to wh...

For those who have been asking: yes. I am vaccinated, and, yes, I am going for a third booster jab. I believe in the efficacy of vaccinations in the fight against this deadly pandemic. The evidence here, and elsewhere, is overwhelming and cannot be d...

These two words loom large today: if only. If only everyone could agree, or at least come together to reach a consensus on how we must combat Covid-19 and the deadly Delta variant — and act on it. Fat chance? No question this is a national crisis of ...

It has been said that there are no friends in politics, only allies who have common interests that can and do shift from time to time. In fact, as former US president Harry Truman once famously said about life in Washington (read politics): if it is ...

“We have found the enemy, and it is not each other.” — Heather McGhee, The Sum Of Us This could easily get out of hand — and here I am referring not only to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has that potential, but to the ways in which people are ...