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In 1940 the poet Edna St Vincent Millay offered up a furious rebuke in verse to a still-powerful Isolationist lobby determined to keep America artificially distanced from the violent convulsions then rocking Europe, convulsions which would soon threa...

It’s been almost 70 years since Bermuda experienced war at first hand. The entire Island was mobilised during the Second World War. The entire population was prepared, vigilant and ready to meet the dangers which threatened the Island. Hundreds of yo...

There’s a fine old Churchillism about the inconsistency of officialdom — “so they (the government) go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent” ...

It’s called the Crisis of Rising Expectations and it’s been a well-established rule of a thumb in political science circles for decades. Distilled to basics, it states that if expectations start rising at a rate exceeding the ability of a society to ...

For almost a century it has been as much a herald of the Bermudian spring as returning Longtails kiting across clearing skies or the freesias which shyly begin poking their multicoloured heads through the long, rain-saturated winter grass. The Agricu...

While America’s economy has technically been out of recession for six years, it is only relatively recently that the recovery has started to make itself felt at a grassroots level. The number of long-term unemployed, those who simply gave up looking ...

In the late 1940s the attack dogs of the extreme American right first began to howl about Hollywood. In the paranoid Cold War climate that prevailed, Reds were routinely being spotted under every bed – including the ornate four-posters at some of th...

One of the weaknesses of democracy is that it encourages our political leaders to shy away from taking politically difficult actions that would serve the interests of their country in the long term, but would cost them popularity with voters in the ...

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 times. — Ecclesiasticus Bermuda has always been somewhat remiss when it comes to honouring its own. Part of thi...

What’s called “the demographic time bomb” in geopolitical circles has long-since detonated in Bermuda. We are contending with the direct and collateral damage on a daily basis. Simply put, Bermuda’s population was decimated as a consequence of the ...