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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, long been the setting for low farce as well as h...

“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. And we were all of us co-opted as characters in t...

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 travelled four billion miles onto the surface of a two-m...

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 hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in...

“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 restless tumult had blown so exceedingly as we could...

Just last week Bermuda was patting itself on the back as the end of what had been forecast to be be a slower-than-normal hurricane season approached. Once again it looked as if we might run the annual June-November gauntlet without experiencing the ...

Reality, it’s been said, is that which doesn’t go away even when you stop believing in it. Substituting comforting fantasies for hard-edged realities may be a source of short-term solace to those whose preferred method of dealing with challenging, co...

There have been hopeful signs of late that Bermuda’s long identity crisis as a tourism destination may finally be approaching some kind of successful resolution. After 30 years of increasingly desperate Tourism Ministry attempts to market Bermuda as ...

Harry Potter, it seems, has worked a kind of practical magic on his worldwide readership. It’s been seven years since the last volume in the bestselling literary series of all time, the estimable Harry Potter & The Deathly Hollows, appeared and autho...