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Columnist Khalid Wasi calls on the former finance minister to lead a revolt within the PLP

No need to apologise for history, life is full of unfulfilled ambitions and intent, and also statements such as “I did the best for what I knew at the time.” Real life and growth is often a revision. The 18th-century French Revolution inspired the Am...

There is a school of thought based mainly on a Darwinist premise of random selection. Hence, there is its concomitant cofactor — “what if?” What if this had occurred as opposed to that, etc? Even though “if” is a nonreality, we still fascinate ourse...

In the year 2023, I intend to develop another approach to political matters: my motto going forward will be “educate and not agitate”. Political reform is an essential part of the democratic experience. Jurisdictions that have an open process for re...

Life and human civilisation in its social and conscious evolution show patterns of behaviour that are predictable and near uniform in outcomes. One of the best-documented examples of this is religion. Whether it is Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or Ju...

The report on self-determination is out now, so obviously the Cabinet has reviewed it and deemed it fit for public consumption. Although Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, claimed the report did not make any recommendations, the report’s con...

For anyone who thinks my calls for broader participation in political parties and wider voting to select party candidates and leaders is new, I have been on record since at least the early 1990s as an advocate. Even before then, I advocated for 13 y...

After listening to both sides of the House of Assembly on the Throne Speech, it becomes clear that there are polar opposites operating at two extremes of the political spectrum. Take the issue of sovereignty. The PLP basically said the people are rea...

The beginning of the Westminster system dates back to the Magna Carta, which was a document created in 1215 that put a limit and check on the powers allowed to the monarch. Before the Magna Carta, the monarchs had absolute reign over all their subjec...

Carlyle Corbin, the author of the Options for Sovereignty report, cannot be said to be an impartial or benign scholar of sovereignty, given he is himself an advocate of self-determination. It is OK to be an advocate and, perhaps, that is even a noble...