The late Walton Brown Jr had it right. The impetus for major reform and social justice for the longest time came not from within the legislature, but from without. He catalogued much of that history i...
The Westminster system of government often comes in for its fair share of criticism in recent times — here and elsewhere. True, it is not perfect, and I have in my time been an advocate for reform and...
All nasty comments aside, perplexed readers wondered what I meant when I wrote of the need for reinvention for 2021 in my last column. Fair enough folks. It was in the context of our battle to contain...
Looking back on 2020, no question that two big events stand out: Covid-19 and the historic landslide election victory of the Progressive Labour Party. They were not entirely unrelated.
The pandemic pr...
Numbers are important, sure, and our number of parliamentary representatives — 47 in total — is an issue that crops up for debate every now and again.
A regular reader, and good friend, very recently...
Throne Speech. The Reply. Point. Counterpoint.
Now we all understand the politics of debate in the House of Assembly. Only too well. Meanwhile, outside the legislature partisans pile on with pointed c...
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...
