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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...

“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...