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Usually, I like to stick to issues and let the politics fall on either side of the debate wherever it leads. However, politics itself is now trending, particularly when we have the re-emergence of the former home affairs minister Michael Fahy, whom m...

Can a relatively low-tax country run a high-quality, taxpayer-funded health service that is free to all? Britain’s National Health Service suggests the answer is no. The NHS is good at some things but bad, bordering on disastrous, at others. Its grea...

Western observers tend to conflate Europe’s two leading proponents of right-wing populism: Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, and the chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Kaczynski has long promised the advent o...

One of the things that has always disturbed me with politics in Bermuda is the lack of a clear and constant political ideology. The adage for most Western democracies is that you need to hold the centre ground to win and hold on to government. In mo...

I read with great interest the front-page story in The Royal Gazette on January 5 titled “Anger over absence of diversity in honours” and the opinion by Chris Famous titled “No honour in the lack of diversity”. I followed this debate when it first su...

United States Attorney-General Jeff Sessions is pushing the Federal Government back into cannabis enforcement. This is an unwise and unnecessary move that may divert resources from more serious problems, and end up backfiring on those who want to res...

Advances in robotics and artificial intelligence have raised a dystopian concern for women: what if female robots become so realistic — and so adept at sex — that they render men incapable of engaging in real human relationships? Actually, it’s the m...

The New Year’s Eve brawl at Bermuda’s premier resort, the Fairmont Southampton hotel, was jolting news that brought a cringeworthy reminder of the violence that terrorises families and threatens too many of our youth. For some, this is seen as a pro...

A newly sworn-in mayor in one of the heartland’s largest metro areas revived a criticism of the national anthem that was often overlooked during the NFL protests. At his swearing-in, Melvin Carter III, the first black mayor of St Paul, Minnesota, arg...

As we embrace 2018, many will talk about new year’s resolutions. I have already made mine, so I thought I would write some for the Government to consider that would benefit all Bermudians: Resolution 1: Engage more in governing and less in politickin...