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I do not normally think of bad news as good news, but the report in The Royal Gazette last week that Bermuda was running out of cement is one instance where that crossed my mind. Contractor demand for cement had literally emptied the Dockyard silos, ...

Roger Daltrey of The Who sang it with a full-throated scream in 1971: “We won’t get fooled again!” And yet, we still do. Oh, do we ever. Remember this one from the presidential campaign? The “news story” that spread the lie that Pope Francis had endo...

Washington will swallow your soul if you let it. It’s a place where many moral compasses go to die. So maybe it should not come as a surprise that the Vice-President of the United States is ridiculed when it is reported that he has spent his time in ...

There has been a buzz recently about the Commission of Inquiry and even a poll conducted to test public sentiment about whether it was thought as politically motivated. While no one can dismiss political motivation, nor can they dismiss responsible ...

The recently repeated issues surrounding bed shortages at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital have served as a reminder that a larger problem is at play, one that must be addressed head-on. This can best be resolved by input and participation from the ...

You may be aware that Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, was on island this month to recognise the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award for five decades of service to Bermuda. There was a lot to celebrate over that weekend as we paid tribute to th...

The first cocktail party at Barack Obama's new office last month was certainly more casual than any he had hosted in recent years. The wine bore a random assortment of labels, as if assembled potluck-style. The self-serve appetisers were set out in t...

Fifty per cent of Americans are now “concerned believers” in global warming. That is the finding of a new Gallup “cluster analysis” of responses to a poll conducted this month. It is also a record, although the percentage was actually a pretty simila...

Campaign rhetoric and slogans versus governance and performance. “Repeal and replace Obamacare” was not just a campaign slogan, it was a seven-year mantra that ended as a no-show on the floor of the House. This was a clear example of the rubber meeti...

Let me briefly try to answer this question: how did Republicans fail to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act? In no order, and off the top of my addled mind at the end of a crushing week: • They hated Obamacare but they never understood the Aff...