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“Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn’t happen.” — Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby In advance of winning the General Election last Tuesday, David Burt pledged that a Progressive Labour Party government would put...

It is not too often that a political party can leave the public purse in such a state of disrepair and then return to government at the first time of asking. That the Progressive Labour Party has managed to pull it off says more about who the people ...

David Burt, among others in position of high office, has been known to refer to election cycles as the silly season. A time when normally sane folks lose their minds in an attempt to have their party of choice assume the role of government for five y...

“Democracy thrives on civil debate, but we’re shamefully out of practice.” — Michael Sandel (TED2010) On September 26, 1960, Richard Nixon, the Vice-President of the United States, and Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy engaged in the first of fo...

Today is Nomination Day for the 2017 General Election. It could be the day when we learn of the historically biggest field of independents, including a former leader of the country, ever to put themselves forward as candidates to run against the esta...

“What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be.” — Anonymous We did it, Bermuda. We may not have got the result we wanted, owing to the utter and undeniable brilliance of Emirates Team New Zealand, but what was...

The original idea that Bermuda could host the America’s Cup was fanciful. Laughed at by some. Fanciful turned to brilliant once our little island’s bid was accepted by the crème de la crème of international sailing. And no one can doubt that, 26 days...

Will he or won’t he? Those are the questions that have been sweeping the political landscape in the days in advance of the motion of no confidence that David Burt plans to call against the One Bermuda Alliance government led by Michael Dunkley when P...

Within the Preserve Marriage group, there are many genuinely good people — you would say a very large majority of them. Of that there is no doubt. Other than being altruistically God-fearing, this large majority are law-abiding, upstanding and loyal ...

The Premier League in England is undeniably the richest football league in the world and, despite convincing arguments to the contrary over the past decade at least, it is viewed largely in these parts as also the best league in the world. It was not...