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When is the truth the truth? You know, when we can just see it and acknowledge it? Maybe dealing with it is another matter, but there must be a common ground for what is clearly visible. If you see something that can fly, swims and paddles in the wa...

A friend asked me in a discussion over coffee: “Khalid, what is the workforce going to look like 30 years from now?” He asked this question after experiencing some service from waitresses who seemed disconnected from us as customers. We were comparin...

The delegates conference, a ritual performed each autumn since the Progressive Labour Party's inception back in 1963, is sacred to the function of the organisation, yet seemingly disconnected and inconsequential to the broad party support. The conf...

Rupert Murdoch and his media empire made a mint over the past four years capitalising on hype. In the process, political ideas formerly associated as conservative or liberal, or the Right and Left, have been "coated" with a new spin. Essentially the ...

So let’s get down to some real work. America as a political priority needs to rid itself of the electoral college. The population is now more educated — enough now to know whom they are voting for — so let the majority rule. That will put an end to ...

America now is at a point where it needs a reset. The departure of Donald Trump with his closing salvo stating "the movement has just begun" sets the job for the new president as one of those epochal moments in the national life of the United States....

Pardon me, and rarely would I take this approach, but when an ideologue and a person who is thought to be at the cutting edge of political reform declares a political position that is pre-1770, what hope could be had for the bunch on the Hill? It wou...

I have written about our leaders in the past and on one such occasion I elevated a comparison between three prominent leaders — Sir Henry “Jack” Tucker, Sir John Swan and Ewart Brown — putting all of them in a realm at the top as far as being the mo...

The real test of leadership is not on the horizon; it’s staring us in the face. While we may be spectators, if any major escalation that resembles civil war in the United States occurs, it will have a huge and direct impact in Bermuda — as it did in ...

The world continues to learn the truth about the principle of not just being a democracy, but the effort it takes to maintain one. Woven into that idea is the notion of a republic where the people are the authority — the fine line between order and d...