With great amusement, I read some words recently penned by One Bermuda Alliance MP Scott Pearman in his op-ed, published on Monday, aptly titled: “How much do words matter?”
Here are some key takeaway...
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” — Margaret Thatcher
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“Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.” — Winston Churchill
For months, I resisted watching a very popular Netflix series by the name of The Crown. which follows t...
“Now Main Street’s whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain’t nobody wants to come down here no more
They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says the...
A few days ago, I bumped into someone who on a daily basis has a lot to say online about politics and what the Government should or should not do.
Initially, I was a bit excited to see them, thinking ...
In the blink of an eye it will be 2020. Some will claim it as a new decade, while others will say 2021 is the start of a new decade. Putting aside the semantics, it will be a new month and new year.
T...
I had the opportunity and privilege last Friday, December 13, of getting to sit in the House of Assembly.
No, not the House of Assembly of Bermuda, but the House of Assembly for the Virgin Islands. Lo...
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the biblical t...
“Do not glad-hand me!”
Dear Tim,
Do you remember your first spoken words to me more than five years ago at the gas station on Par-la-Ville Road?
Apparently, still extremely irate at a comment I made a...
Not surprisingly, there are those of the opinion that elected persons are mortal enemies who, at no time whatsoever, share any form of human compassion among themselves.
This is far from the truth, an...
