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I think of myself as a Democrat, but not strictly because I also believe in the liberty of the individual. As an example, I believe when a person represents others, they should do so with the best that they can personally offer, and not merely as a v...

On both sides of the northern border that connects the United States to Canada, economists are bracing themselves for the possibility of a recession. Some are pointing to the trade war between the US and China as partially, if not totally, the trigge...

Sitting relaxed behind my computer, I was abruptly but pleasantly interrupted by a telephone caller who was listening to the Premier, David Burt, on the Sherry J talk show. To paraphrase the comments, when the Premier was asked what he was doing to s...

I don’t smoke anything and I have no prejudice for those who do. For me, it was perhaps a degree of fate that prevented me from being a smoker. I, just like so many schoolboys back in the Sixties, sneaked away to have a draw on what was then a new m...

Social media reveals much about how people think. In short bites thought to be quotes of brilliance, whole worlds of thought and ethics can be released. Take, for example, this comment made on one of my articles: “It’s amazing how a little isolated i...

There is a hell of a debate going now in the United States about the autocratic style of leadership that Donald Trump seems to prefer. The word there is that “he is destroying our democracy, he is taking away the very sense of who we are”. Beyond th...

There are tangible benefits for persons belonging to sophisticated jurisdictions whose services are international in scope. Experience is gained through opportunity and exposure. In Bermuda, as everywhere, the opportunity may arise in either the priv...

It would be very easy to start a war with Iran and there is no question of whether the United States is the stronger of the two militarily with its superior airpower. However, war is about outcome and achieving goals that neutralise the opposition. E...

I am not one for conspiracy theories, although it is patently obvious that there are too many incidents that are not above board. Like this near imminent war with Iran, which has the air of being so similar to the war on Iraq. I was never a fan of t...

This crisis along the United States southern border with Mexico is in reality a humanitarian crisis and a reflection of a failed regional policy. Hundreds of thousands of persons, many of whom are women and children, are fleeing from impoverishment a...