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When Conor McGregor returned to his corner at the end of the third round of his megabout with Floyd Mayweather Jr in the very early hours of Sunday morning, the farce that is expected to earn him and his conqueror a combined $400 million was fully ex...

Watching the sorry plight yesterday of a Bermudian in England being kicked off a flight to Los Angeles re-emphasised the urgency that is required to get our passport affairs in order with the British Government. MacInnis Looby, a former champion cycl...

Article II of the US Constitution is the presidential job description, defining and enumerating the responsibilities and formal powers of that office. But as every American president since George Washington has eventually discovered, the most import...

Harry Truman once demanded to see a one-armed economist after growing exasperated with those practitioners of what’s been called “the dismal science” who provided “on the one hand … but on the other hand” answers to his every question on fiscal polic...

Election postmortems tend to be more Rorschach Test than rigorous analytical exercise: those conducting them usually see what they are predisposed to see, ignore information which does not conform to their pre-existing notions and rely on gut instinc...

It’s often said that more tears are shed over answered prayers than the unanswered variety, and this holds particularly true in the political field. The Progressive Labour Party defied its own expectations with last month’s stunning election victory ...

It really wasn’t so much a tale of “Two Bermudas”, to borrow one of the Progressive Labour Party’s political slogans. Rather the story of the 2017 Bermuda election was, in large measure, a tale of two radically different approaches to election campa...

Cup Match time in Bermuda is meant to be a period for reflection, for celebration, for the playing of a two-day cricket match and for our families and our people to come together. But, the ebullient scenes from the recent General Election notwithstan...

The One Bermuda Alliance was weighed in the balance on July 18 and found wanting, particularly by the broad centre of the electorate. In any parliamentary democracy, governments are formed from the centre, not the fringes. If an incumbent administrat...

The aftershocks of last week’s massive political earthquake in Bermuda are going to continue to be felt, and studied, for months to come. With a resurgent Progressive Labour Party easily winning constituencies, which had previously been considered m...