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When you start a journey in the wrong direction one can only hope to end up in the right place. On the issue of same-sex marriage, my dominant point is to separate religion from state. Ideas of marriage are religious in nature. Ideas of relationship...

Some years ago Dame Lois Browne-Evans said in a speech, “People complain about the Westminster system, but the problem is they don’t know how to improve upon it”. Her comments were heartfelt and, after serving a long and distinguished career in Parli...

I like to be positive, so even when pointing to the dark side, it is an attempt to make us do better. Finding a distance between personal bias, desire and ambition seems to be the Achilles’ heel that besets leadership and is often the cause for the d...

I don’t need to explain the seriousness of life or overly dramatise the concerns that too many people have about their future, and the safety and prospects for their children. Many years ago there was a little slang that people in my circles would ar...

At first, I thought of the by-elections, particularly in Warwick, as ho-hum and that perhaps the statistical aspect as a parliamentary 25-11 is ho-hum. However, the real achievement in this election was bringing a strong candidate with real experien...

When I was a younger man, I was very inclined towards the thought of Bermuda as a nation. Perhaps influenced by the postwar environment where from my house as a child I watched American naval ships, aircraft carriers and seaplanes — at times crashing...

There is an old hymn, Count Your Blessings, which includes the line “name them one by one”. I for one can see the perceived risk that cryptocurrency may implicate, but I would be foolhardy or outright bigoted to believe or proclaim there is no benefi...

We keep hearing it and, yes, sometimes get tired of hearing “race”, which seemingly is behind every inclination we have. America’s Cup — race. Politics — race. Flora Duffy celebration, or lack thereof — race. So in the Bermudian vernacular, “I mus...

I actually had another topic to write about but I had to put it aside for the moment given the sudden departure of Jeff Baron from Parliament. But, like London buses, by the time I finished writing about him, Grant Gibbons announced his retirement, s...

Fifty years have gone by so quickly, and while it is appropriate to celebrate the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, certain not-so-celebratory realisations need to be acknowledged also. The 1960s were a high period of transformation in the ...