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.
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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...
You don’t need cartoonist Peter Woolcock’s highly developed sense of the absurd to recognise the comic possibilities — and improbabilities — of Bermudian politics.
The House of Assembly has, of course...
“He nothing common did or mean/Upon that memorable scene …” Andrew Marvell
He was our John Tenniel or Ernest Shepherd or Dr Seuss.
Bermuda was his Wonderland or Hundred Acre Woods or Jungle of Nool....
He could have been forgiven tears of joy for having engineered a scientific feat of almost unfathomable difficulty and unsurpassed brilliance.
Having successfully landed a robot probe which had travel...
At the stroke of 11am this morning, Bermuda fell silent for two minutes to honour our war dead. The tradition dates from the Armistice, which ended what was then called the Great War on “the eleventh ...
“A most dreadful tempest (and) hideous began to blow … at length (it) did beat all light from heaven, which like an hell of darkness turned black upon us … For four and twenty hours the storm in a re...
