Future Notes
‘Liberty, democracy and autocracy’
Globally, the intrinsic humanist possibilities of ‘democracy’ have not been allowed to fully develop, and until such time as they...
Read moreDetails‘Bidding autocratic revivals’
President Donald Trump’s disparaging characterisation of the Obamas did not surprise me as in 2016, he did two important things...
Read moreDetails‘The criminalisation of politics’
The election of Mr. Azrudin Mohamed, the leader of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), to the National Assembly and his...
Read moreDetails‘The Parliamentary Opposition in context’
Walter Bagehot, the nineteenth century English journalist, claimed that the British parliament was no more than a talk-shop of idle...
Read moreDetails‘Political lessons from Venezuela’
Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States had ‘captured’ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and flown...
Read moreDetailsPalestine, Israel and the Search for a Just Endgame
Future notes’ is not intended to dwell inordinately upon the past but to try and scope better futures from existing...
Read moreDetails‘Democracy, poverty and vote-buying’
Vote-buying is the offer of financial or other material inducements to voters by candidates or political parties during an election...
Read moreDetails“There is no ‘We’”
It is simply amazing that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has been busy rewarding itself when its primary achievement over...
Read moreDetailsGuyana’s Long Crisis Shows the Urgent Need for an Independent Peace Facilitator
‘I believe there’s no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. They’re created and sustained by human beings....
Read moreDetails‘Thanks President Ali’
It must be the case that the president of Guyana has come to believe his own propaganda, for his behaviour...
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