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Position is the art of gunnery, Mr Editor, or words to that effect. A former comrade in arms, politically speaking of course, not literally please, used to remind us of this at critical junctures in caucus discussions on issues of the day. I think w...

People are looking for answers, Mr Editor, and when people want answers they start by asking questions. Hmmn, questions. Fair enough. On the Hill in the House, there is a parliamentary version: Question Period. A fair chunk of time is set aside each ...

T & A, Mr Editor, transparency and accountability, are the key to good governance. Both words are bandied about frequently by those in and out of politics, myself included. The two principles are, we are told, the dynamic duo to democracy, the Batma...

It was a whopper that came up a cropper, you could say Mr Editor. Let me explain myself. The One Bermuda Alliance Government looked to be stuck with an investigation by a Commission that it seemed it neither approved of nor wanted. Initial reports ca...

Fissiparous was a word that had readers thumbing through their dictionaries last week, Mr Editor. It had them thinking and talking too. Good. So, too, did the challenge of trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. It ain’t easy. This week, same sub...

It’s ironic really. One party complains about criticism levelled by the other and invariably replies in kind, whether by style or in substance, or both, touching of further rounds of more of the same. So it goes in politics in Bermuda as the kettle c...

Spare a thought for the Health Minister. He hasn’t been in office four months and grease balls surface on the South Shore. If that isn’t bad enough, the US Consulate issues a travel warning about swimming on our beaches. But look, it happens: the une...

The value of an independent, objective opinion is not to be underestimated, particularly perhaps in politics, and not withstanding if it is the work of a lawyer. No, Mr Editor, I am not thinking of my own. I am referring instead to the opinion of a L...

Politics will change when politicians change, one reader told me after last week’s column. He has a point. Albert Einstein put it another way: “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our th...

He said, he said, all right: a good headline, Mr Editor, and a fair summation of what has become a sad, sorry spectacle. Sordid too: disclosure of the existence of a surreptitious tape recording by one MP of another, the contents of which we have yet...

The news made my head spin too: Bermudians are better off now than they were ten years ago. The average income of a two-person home was reported to be $2,767.00 a week or $144,000.00 per year. I expect a lot of Bermudians were wondering just who thes...