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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, an advocate for the sexual revolution, is dead at 91. But the debates he embodied about sex and American liberalism are very much alive. On some significant social issues, Hefner was early to take what are today mainstrea...

Saudi Arabia announced this week that it will lift the ban on women driving, a policy that has long served as a symbol of the country’s unequal treatment of women. Saudi Arabia is the very last country in the world to do so. “Saudi Arabia allows wome...

Whatever you do, don’t tell an Australian that they were “born with a silver spoon” in their mouth — especially not after the actor Rebel Wilson won Australia’s biggest-ever defamation payment. The charge against her? She had been accused of having a...

Governments in free societies worldwide often stumble badly when they fail to keep good public relations as a priority. Bermuda is no exception and we have seen governments over the years fall short in the crucial area of public relations. This is a ...

Few issues on the Bermuda political agenda have been as assiduously avoided and talked around in recent years as independence. For all practical purposes, the matter was filed and forgotten along with the final report of former premier Alex Scott’s 2...

It’s a “What if ...” question that can only be speculated upon but not definitively answered, at least not yet. And it’s one that is being increasingly asked given the likely convergence in the coming months of two seemingly unrelated but rather obvi...

The recent call for independence by Senator Jason Hayward at the Labour Day rally should not be a cause for alarm or surprise — and it was to be expected. There has always been a sector of labour that has wanted independence. They are not alone becau...

President Donald Trump hinted for weeks that he might pardon former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. When he finally did so last Friday, the White House’s official statement lauding Arpaio failed to mention the charge for which Trump had granted clemency:...

Did everyone have a reality check after Cup Match? An exciting array of great reader questions arrived at my inbox in the last couple of weeks. So! This week we focus on a discussion of the Bermuda Primary Family Homestead Certificate. Reader: “We ar...

If recent experience is anything to go by, the General Election on July 18 will be close. Here are five things to watch for in the run-up to the vote: Populism versus Open Society: Political pundits have been debating how politics in the Wester...