A Speech from the Throne sounds impressive — it is meant to be — and far less ceremonial than the ceremony in which it is wrapped. It is the centrepiece of a longstanding parliamentary tradition tha...
Our Senate was recently the object of attention, but sadly the focus wasn’t on the role it plays in our system of governance and whether it could benefit from reform.
Pity that.
The issue of reform ...
The dust has settled on Election 2020 and, as the saying goes, the numbers don’t lie. We don’t think. Aside from the massive 24-seat victory for the Progressive Labour Party, the other equally impress...
Coalition, you ask? Not likely, I should think. Granted it is always a mathematical possibility, regardless how faint. But the polls we have seen to date would seem to suggest otherwise; although a lo...
Excuse me, but my ears pricked up when I heard my name mentioned in a newscast that featured the announcement of a new election candidate.
Lindsay Simmons said that I was the last politician to visit ...
That letter, the claim that prompted it and the kerfuffle that followed were all starting to look like nothing more than usual political drama until … until suddenly it got serious: the election was c...
Checks and balances in the Westminster model are one thing; opportunities for collaboration are quite another. It is just a matter of creating the necessary vehicles to make it possible. Probably the ...
Oversight of the Executive is one of the key roles that the Legislature is expected to play in the Westminster system of government. Collectively, members serve as a critical part of the checks and ba...
The drive for further political reform continued after 1968 and the adoption of a written constitution by British order. But change came slowly.
There was the unresolved, unfinished business of the el...
Every cloud has a silver lining, and the same may be said to be true of hurricanes that we have had to endure over the years — and now the Covid-19 pandemic.
Whatever our differences, we find a way t...
