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Last night, watching Belle zip around the neighbourhood on her bike, I started thinking about how quickly children pick up new skills. It took me weeks to learn to ride the scooter — I was fine going straight and turning right, but I had a crazy hard...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta could have presided over a landmark consolidation of democracy last year that would have positioned Kenya for political leadership in Africa. Instead, he is leading the country back towards the autocracy it thought it ...

It has happened ever since I began teaching as a graduate student in 1991. Most semesters in which I have taught a course related to US history, the complaint appears at least once on my students’ course evaluations: “too much time on race”. Whether ...

I don’t think there is much glamour in having the job of Premier of Bermuda any more; even if we were to take into account the transitional years of Sir Henry Tucker, who was climbing through the wall of segregation. At least for him, there was the o...

Palpatine has perished, the Governor has fallen, Voldemort has been defeated, the virus has brought down the mother ship. The Rohan have survived the assault on Helm’s Deep, Voyager has survived its transit through Borg space, Westeros has survived t...

How is your week going? Are you on a diet? Are you skipping a meal because you ate so much yesterday? Are you skipping a meal because you think that’s what it takes to lose weight? Some people think that skipping meals is what it takes to change th...

The heightened perception of a Russian threat to the West could have at least one positive consequence: The admission of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the European Union. But the massive rallies in Athens on Sunday, with at least 140,0...

When my wife and I married in 2016, we had the wedding of our dreams. We each wore wedding dresses; our fathers walked us down the aisle, one after the other; and we danced to Sam Cooke’s We’re Having a Party at the end of the night, in a circle surr...

A few weeks ago I undertook to proffer an opinion on the place the One Bermuda Alliance inhabits on the political spectrum. You will recall I remarked that the Progressive Labour Party leadership is definitely not a strict labour political personali...

If you have been following the markets over the past five years inflation has not really been on your radar. In fact the spectre of inflation has been continually elusive — until now. The common diatribe has been that the Fed’s interest rate policy ...