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The state of North Carolina is paying $300,000 to a magistrate who quit rather than marry gay couples as ordered by the courts. Something is seriously wrong here. The magistrate was entitled to resign as a matter of conscience. But the religious acco...

George Benson’s 1978 hit song, The Greatest Love of All, later popularised by Whitney Houston, has within it some very important phrases that are appropriate for our political dispensation. In particular, the words pertaining to the search for leade...

Donald Trump wants to arm teachers to prevent or reduce the carnage from future school shootings, such as the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, this month. “A teacher would have shot the hell out of him before he knew...

This is a friendly reminder to stay active and to keep in mind that three out of seven is usually a fail in most standardised testing. Please don’t score a three out of seven for your weekly nutrition and workouts. The science part The consensus in ...

Last Friday, we witnessed some more masterful manipulation by the Progressive Labour Party government with the release of the long-awaited LF Wade International Airport Redevelopment Project Agreement Review Report. Of all the days that the report co...

Bermudians should understand that the Progressive Labour Party government will never ever say the airport project is a good deal for Bermuda — no matter the facts, no matter the positive professional judgments on the deal. Even by its own consultant,...

It has become a widely accepted tenet of modern economics that markets are flawed and need fixing by experts to engineer desired outcomes. At the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, which just concluded, the International Olympic Committee appeared to take ...

Budget time is also a time to think about taxes and tax systems. The Budget speech lamented that the tax system exacerbates the gap between the rich and poor. I recall making the same speech. The Government has pledged to find a new system to help to...

Budget time is always an interesting part of the calendar for Bermuda because it is a time when the focus of public discourse is the economy, government finances, taxes, debt and our future prospects as a country. Unfortunately, this focus wears off ...

My rights! “Son, there is no such thing as ‘your rights’. The only rights that exist are the ones you create and learn to protect.” We have so many positions we take as truths, but are merely assumptions — and society often contributes to its own ent...