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...
There are some among us, Mr Editor, who think we should scrap the Westminster system altogether. We know why. There appears to be so much unnecessary division and bitterness to our politics, which in ...
A prevailing view in some circles in Bermuda, Mr Editor, is that the British Government will not entertain any further amendment to the Bermuda Constitution Order unless we deign to seek independence....
It has been a while, Mr Editor, 50 years to the month in fact that the Bermuda Constitution Order came into effect.
The first point is that it is a Constitution Order, not a Constitution, and the poin...
I know, Mr Editor, I said that I was going to stop writing for a time. But I trust you will allow me this exception, a tribute for an exceptional person: the late Dr the Honourable Clarence James, CBE...
