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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. One of the greatest moral philosophers of his time a...

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. Terrorists armed with rocket launchers and machine ...

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, of course. But Bermudians will have to wait until l...

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 from politicians, road safety agencies and the pol...

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 equally time-honoured fashion. But before we begin c...

It was a Christmas gift to us all, one which didn’t need to be gift-wrapped or festooned with ribbons or even delivered by way of reindeer-drawn sleigh to be a present for the ages. Earlier this month the Bermuda Cancer & Health Centre announced plan...

Along with the Gombeys and cassava pies, Bermuda citrus was once a fixture of the local Christmas season. The smell and taste of Washington navel oranges, in particular, will forever be associated with the holiday among those who grew up here when th...

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...

The Island’s history, culture and folkways are so inextricably intertwined with the ocean around us that no less an observer than Charles Dickens remarked 160 years ago: “Every Bermudian, being born within a mile of the water, was bred amphibious ......