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In a perverse sort of way, on Monday night at Devonshire Recreation Club, Marc Bean was given the greatest vote of confidence as Leader of the Opposition since his crushing defeat of Walton Brown in the leadership challenge in October 2014. Then, he ...

How many countries ever get to host the America’s Cup? The British have been trying to do so for 165 years since they lost the inaugural race that was sailed around the Isle of Wight. The oldest international sporting competition in the world has bee...

How would you like it if we showed up for dinner unannounced and then proceeded to trash your house when the welcome mat was predictably withdrawn? Armed with cans of paint, we spray nasty things on your front door and even worse on your lawn and car...

Perhaps more disappointing than the scenes that tarnished the memory of a competitive and well-played game of football on Sunday is the refusal of the victims to co-operate with law enforcement. That abdication of duty and responsibility is at the ve...

Politics in Bermuda, as elsewhere, tends to be an odd combination of occasionally inspired statesmanship, day-to-day stewardship ranging from the pragmatic to the barely serviceable and increasingly gaudy showmanship. Indeed we live in an age where ...

Muhammad Ali, arguably the greatest boxer ever to lace up a pair of gloves, took up the sport as a way of being prepared to defend himself in the future after his bicycle was stolen. Rocky Marciano took up boxing to avoid kitchen duty when he was dr...

In the celebrated Paul Gallico novella Love Of Seven Dolls, the tiny wood-and-felt cast of a carnival puppet show, each with its own distinct character and perceptive insights, helps to heal the wounded psyche of a traumatised French teenager. Bypas...

Hurricane Nicole was a fickle one from the outset. She formed well to our southeast, moved north and then moved south before heading westward and turning due north, making a beeline for Bermuda. With such unpredictability in her make-up bag, it shoul...

He was described as “a devoted, knowledgeable and sometimes startlingly original Bermudian” in a landmark 1979 New Yorker profile of the island, at once a custodian of our past and a perceptive and spirited commentator on how that history coloured Be...

Age is just a number, goes the saying, but in this society it is often the elderly whose concerns are overlooked, the elderly who are cast into a corner waiting to move on to the next life while “those who know better” get on with the business of liv...