England.

Lord Waddington said that he was "rather sad'' with the contents of the story, headlined "Hanging On'', which appeared in Saturday's Daily Telegraph magazine.

The article was written by Mr. Nicholas Shakespeare following his week-long stay on the Island in November.

A distant relation of William Shakespeare, the writer attempted to analyse the position of Governor, but failed to give any real description of the job or the Island.

Said Lord Waddington yesterday: "I thought it was superficial, especially as the man was on the Island for around five days.

"I was struck by the lack of substance and the way he tended to dwell on issues like capital punishment.

"I am rather sad that it does not contain a detailed analysis of the complex society in which we live in Bermuda and more about the delights of Bermuda. I expected more analysis.'' Lord Waddington hit out at theories brought forward by Mr. Shakespeare about the death of former Governor, Sir Richard Sharples.

Mr. Shakespeare implied in his article that Sir Richard was killed because he was involved in the war against drugs.

"He is latching onto theories with the minimum of evidence. There is not a scrap of evidence to say Richard Sharples died because he showed too much interest in the war against drugs,'' said the Governor.

"He must have introduced it to make it a better story. Many of these people think that they need to sell newspapers in this way.'' Lord Waddington also pointed out that The Royal Gazette had stated that the Governor of Bermuda was a "puppet of Front Street,'' a term not mentioned in the article.

He said: "I did not see anything that justified that. The only reference to traders on Front Street was that what they wanted from Whitehall was a policy of benign neglect.''