It is typically Bermudian that this tiny Island, divided in so many other ways, could find the stuff of national unity in, of all things, a two-day game of cricket. But even as the just completed Cup ...
Jeremy Frith was a man of the soil, a farmer and conservationist whose bond with the good Bermuda earth was almost elemental in its intensity. Mr. Frith was also a man of letters and something of a la...
Arthur Rankin Jr’s name will forever be synonymous with Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Bermudian producer and director’s evergreen 1964 TV special based on the popular song launched his career an...
Politicians the world over have a singular talent for identifying old grievances which can be depended on to yield occasional rewards in the form of popular support and votes. Whether this gift owes m...
Like most island communities, Bermuda takes a gradualist, exceedingly cautious approach to the flotsam and jetsam of new-fangled ideas and notions from the outside world which wash up on our shores fr...
There was nothing remotely glamorous about Bermuda at the end of World War One. This was not yet the Bermuda of “beautiful estates and yachts, of stingers at noon and gin and tonics in the evening” as...
William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies is that genuine rarity, an assigned book in secondary schools which is not just read but positively devoured by most teenagers.
The 1954 novel inspires a visceral a...
“Thirty years ago there stood, a few doors short of the church of Saint George, in the borough of Southwark, on the left-hand side of the way going southward, the Marshalsea Prison, (a) close and conf...
“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us … All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their time.” — Ecclesiasticus
Those who attain an undeserved standin...
Karl Rove certainly didn’t invent the polarising hardball tactics which so define the modern political landscape (that dubious distinction belongs to the very first elected official who successfully ...
