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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...

Maths are everything. Maths are absolute. Maths are everywhere in our world in virtually every decision we make in our daily lives. Behind the scenes, maths calculations have become so mundane that we have become practically oblivious. And, maths ph...

Last Sunday there was a family gathering at the Willowbank Hotel Conference Centre. Hundreds from across the island came together to honour the founders of the Progressive Labour Party, those who had laid the foundations for a better and fairer Bermu...

Belle told me I was “on thin ice” this morning. She thinks it’s hilarious to pretend she’s the mom and I’ve done something bad. She also does that thing where she walks past, pauses, looks at me and then indicates she is watching. I’m usually in the ...

I am by profession a lawyer who has had the misfortune in my long career to see the terrible results of fatal accidents from every perspective: inside courts and witnessing punishment, acknowledging the bereavements and grieving families, and all the...

Last week, I wrote an article about how I left my home in Russia and I took with me photos of beloved people and my father’s favourite painting. I was interested in what my Russian-speaking readers would take to a new life abroad if they left their h...

Evangelist Billy Graham tackled the topic of death often and with surprising frankness for a man who made his living telling people the Good News of salvation in Christ. Graham died yesterday, aged 99. When Graham preached, he said that death was, of...