It’s proved to be an extremely abbreviated victory lap for the Corporation of Hamilton. Just months ago the Home Affairs Minister was issuing iron-fisted threats to shut down the scandal-tarnished and...
Inscribed on Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s tombstone is a verse from the Book of Genesis: “They said to one another, ‘Behold, here cometh the dreamer... let us slay him... and we shall see what might bec...
Politicians are a risk-averse breed as a rule.
Not for them any grand deed or word, any principled beau geste, which flies in the face of the popular mood. Not for them any bold initiative which chall...
Bermuda used to be as much a state of mind as a mid-Atlantic micro-state, a community of shared values, shared duties and shared responsibilities.
Helping one another, demonstrating genuine compassion...
What Stuart Hayward and Dr Wolfgang Sterrer so aptly termed “Bermuda’s delicate balance” in the early 1980s has more than once grown wobbly in subsequent decades.
In their book of that title the autho...
When he wasn’t busy lauding Bermuda as an earthly paradise, Mark Twain tended to take a highly sceptical view of organised religions, their tropes and their more gullible and fanatical adherents.
On...
Assassination has been described as the ultimate form of censorship. The simple, brutal truth of that observation was brought home as never before in modern times in the streets of Paris yesterday.
T...
Unlike the rest of us, who trudged wearily back to work this week, Parliament’s Christmas holiday extends until February.
Which is not to say the daily business of governance doesn’t go on. It does, o...
We are less than a week into the New Year and already two Bermuda families are mourning two more road traffic fatalities.
The latest tragedies will doubtless prompt the usual expressions of sympathy ...
We all of us have spent recent days making pious resolutions in the customary New Year’s manner.
Next week many of us will likely begin paving the road to hell with our good intentions for 2015 in eq...
