It’s been almost 70 years since Bermuda experienced war at first hand.
The entire Island was mobilised during the Second World War. The entire population was prepared, vigilant and ready to meet the d...
There’s a fine old Churchillism about the inconsistency of officialdom — “so they (the government) go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift,...
It’s called the Crisis of Rising Expectations and it’s been a well-established rule of a thumb in political science circles for decades.
Distilled to basics, it states that if expectations start risin...
For almost a century it has been as much a herald of the Bermudian spring as returning Longtails kiting across clearing skies or the freesias which shyly begin poking their multicoloured heads through...
While America’s economy has technically been out of recession for six years, it is only relatively recently that the recovery has started to make itself felt at a grassroots level.
The number of long-...
In the late 1940s the attack dogs of the extreme American right first began to howl about Hollywood.
In the paranoid Cold War climate that prevailed, Reds were routinely being spotted under every bed...
One of the weaknesses of democracy is that it encourages our political leaders to shy away from taking politically difficult actions that would serve the interests of their country in the long term, ...
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us
… All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times.
— Ecclesiasticus
Bermuda has always been somewhat remi...
What’s called “the demographic time bomb” in geopolitical circles has long-since detonated in Bermuda.
We are contending with the direct and collateral damage on a daily basis.
Simply put, Bermuda’s...
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeatedly miss its opportunities.
In Bermuda’s case, our general lack of familiarity with our Island’s long story has repeatedly undercut efforts to put the...
