The opening shots of the American Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter outside Charleston, South Carolina, in 1861 when troops of the secessionist Confederacy bombarded Union defenders.
When the centen...
Death, admonished the poet John Donne, be not proud.
“Mighty and dreadful” though it is considered to be, death’s power is ultimately an illusion. The souls and memories of those it claims live on; th...
The thunder of gunfire in a historic Charleston church is echoing throughout Bermuda today. So are the howls of anguish and grief and disbelief.
On Wednesday night, a heavily armed white supremacist o...
Given the right tools and the proper determination, individuals can accomplish even the most seemingly impossible tasks.
“Give me a place to stand,” said one of the most legendary figures of classical...
Between regular visits to Bermuda in the early years of the 20th century, Mark Twain found time to dash off a droll letter to the editor of an American newspaper.
He good-naturedly upbraided the news...
Long overdue reforms to a Dickensian legal system. Pending hikes in health insurance premiums. A potentially seismic shift in Bermuda’s energy policy. There’s been a flurry of genuinely important deve...
The jaunty lyrics of the Disney song notwithstanding, the actor’s life is very rarely a “Hi-diddle-dee-dee!” existence. And it’s certainly not the life for everyone.
The usual trajectory of an actor’...
The first rule of politics is generally understood to mean respecting your voters.
But recently unveiled legislation proposing changes to insurance coverage for mammograms could only have reinforced ...
Bermuda’s airport is rapidly becoming a case study in how not to proceed with a major infrastructure development project. Clearly some critics are more fixated on bringing Government down than with re...
There are times when you can well understand why Bermuda so appealed to David Letterman’s highly developed sense of the absurd.
The late night talk show host, who signed off earlier this week after a ...
