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Politicians are a risk-averse breed as a rule. Not for them any grand deed or word, any principled beau geste, which flies in the face of the popular mood. Not for them any bold initiative which challenges outdated but entrenched social conventions o...

Bermuda used to be as much a state of mind as a mid-Atlantic micro-state, a community of shared values, shared duties and shared responsibilities. Helping one another, demonstrating genuine compassion, conviction and concern for our neighbours, was a...

What Stuart Hayward and Dr Wolfgang Sterrer so aptly termed “Bermuda’s delicate balance” in the early 1980s has more than once grown wobbly in subsequent decades. In their book of that title the authors made the point it wasn’t just the Island’s ecol...

When he wasn’t busy lauding Bermuda as an earthly paradise, Mark Twain tended to take a highly sceptical view of organised religions, their tropes and their more gullible and fanatical adherents. One of the greatest moral philosophers of his time a...

Assassination has been described as the ultimate form of censorship. The simple, brutal truth of that observation was brought home as never before in modern times in the streets of Paris yesterday. Terrorists armed with rocket launchers and machine ...

Unlike the rest of us, who trudged wearily back to work this week, Parliament’s Christmas holiday extends until February. Which is not to say the daily business of governance doesn’t go on. It does, of course. But Bermudians will have to wait until l...

We are less than a week into the New Year and already two Bermuda families are mourning two more road traffic fatalities. The latest tragedies will doubtless prompt the usual expressions of sympathy from politicians, road safety agencies and the pol...

We all of us have spent recent days making pious resolutions in the customary New Year’s manner. Next week many of us will likely begin paving the road to hell with our good intentions for 2015 in equally time-honoured fashion. But before we begin c...

It was a Christmas gift to us all, one which didn’t need to be gift-wrapped or festooned with ribbons or even delivered by way of reindeer-drawn sleigh to be a present for the ages. Earlier this month the Bermuda Cancer & Health Centre announced plan...

Along with the Gombeys and cassava pies, Bermuda citrus was once a fixture of the local Christmas season. The smell and taste of Washington navel oranges, in particular, will forever be associated with the holiday among those who grew up here when th...