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“I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination.” — Nelson Mandela Ordinarily, I make a conscious effort not respond to my critics when I put out my opinions for public consumption. An occupational hazard of pla...

It may look as if the UK Supreme Court dealt a death blow to Nicola Sturgeon's strategy for Scottish independence, with its ruling on Wednesday that no referendum could be held without agreement from Westminster. In fact, it did the opposite. The Sco...

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...

The Parliament of Westminister in London is considered “the mother of all parliaments”. For more than 900 years, laws have been passed inside those chambers that governed not only how England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland were run, but the entirety of...

Here in Bermuda, the war that has been waged by Russia against Ukraine since February 24, 2022, and related events such as fundraisers were initially covered quite well. However, as the war dragged on for weeks and then months, current news, which is...

In the late 1940s, students from around the Caribbean and North Atlantic attended university in London. These persons included Errol Barrow, of Barbados, Eugenia Charles, of Dominica, Michael Manley, of Jamaica, Lynden Pindling, of the Bahamas, and L...

The Progressive Labour Party is in the midst of holding its annual delegates conference. On October 20, the delegates will either confirm David Burt or they will elect a new leader for the party — and Bermuda will have a new premier. I am therefore i...

On Wednesday night, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued a partial stay of District Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling granting Donald Trump a special master to review the 11,000 documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago home by the Fe...