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Coalition, you ask? Not likely, I should think. Granted it is always a mathematical possibility, regardless how faint. But the polls we have seen to date would seem to suggest otherwise; although a lot, of course, can happen between the time polls we...

Excuse me, but my ears pricked up when I heard my name mentioned in a newscast that featured the announcement of a new election candidate. Lindsay Simmons said that I was the last politician to visit her home in the constituency of Devonshire South C...

That letter, the claim that prompted it and the kerfuffle that followed were all starting to look like nothing more than usual political drama until … until suddenly it got serious: the election was called. Now when it comes to politics, you better ...

Checks and balances in the Westminster model are one thing; opportunities for collaboration are quite another. It is just a matter of creating the necessary vehicles to make it possible. Probably the most familiar of which are joint select committees...

Oversight of the Executive is one of the key roles that the Legislature is expected to play in the Westminster system of government. Collectively, members serve as a critical part of the checks and balances the Legislature provides on the exercise of...

The drive for further political reform continued after 1968 and the adoption of a written constitution by British order. But change came slowly. There was the unresolved, unfinished business of the electoral system and whether parish-based, dual-seat...

Every cloud has a silver lining, and the same may be said to be true of hurricanes that we have had to endure over the years — and now the Covid-19 pandemic. Whatever our differences, we find a way to come together and confront the challenges that c...

There are some among us, Mr Editor, who think we should scrap the Westminster system altogether. We know why. There appears to be so much unnecessary division and bitterness to our politics, which in turn seems to widen the divide in the greater comm...

A prevailing view in some circles in Bermuda, Mr Editor, is that the British Government will not entertain any further amendment to the Bermuda Constitution Order unless we deign to seek independence. Whether or not that is the official position rema...

It has been a while, Mr Editor, 50 years to the month in fact that the Bermuda Constitution Order came into effect. The first point is that it is a Constitution Order, not a Constitution, and the point here is that it is a statutory instrument of the...