It’s too little. It’s too much. Or it’s never enough. Or it’s never quite right. Call it the Goldilocks principle of government, folks — and, even worse, when stuck between a rock and hard place, it’s...
People do tend to go off on political parties from time to time. They have their fierce critics, and not always from the same quarters. Former Speaker Sir John Cox, from back in the days of independen...
Results matter, of course, but so, too, do the reasons that leads to those results. This is particularly true of decisions of the court. They ought not to be overlooked; and while not everyone is an a...
There are times when you cannot win for losing — and when it comes to making difficult decisions, pleasing everyone is out of the question. It has to be even tougher when trying to mobilise an entire ...
I could carp, but I won’t. I could lash out in anger, but I won’t. Complaining and criticising at this critical stage of the fight proves only one thing, and that is that hindsight is 20/20 vision.
So...
This is no lament for the way we were — now is not the time — but rather recognition of the way it is, and is likely to be for some time to come.
There can be few among of us who are not suffering exh...
It is an issue that comes up from time to time, and that is the question of whether Bermuda is overrepresented with 36 MPs and 11 senators. It came up again recently, but you may have missed it. It wa...
Interesting this: there is talk elsewhere that we may be on the verge of another Roaring Twenties — like that which followed the 1918 flu pandemic. Well, we can but hope; and note, I underscore elsewh...
One of the best descriptions that I ever came across on the challenge of writing a column came from Pulitzer prize winning columnist Russell Baker of New York Times fame : it is like having to perform...
Politics can be very much a matter of broad strokes, with opinions and preferences formed by impressions, relationships and histories — both family and personal. It is a factor that should be never ov...
