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“He nothing common did or mean/Upon that memorable scene …” Andrew Marvell
He was our John Tenniel or Ernest Shepherd or Dr Seuss.
Bermuda was his Wonderland or Hundred Acre Woods or Jungle of Nool.
And we were all of us co-opted as characters in t...
DATE: Dec 09, 2014
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He could have been forgiven tears of joy for having engineered a scientific feat of almost unfathomable difficulty and unsurpassed brilliance.
Having successfully landed a robot probe which had travelled four billion miles onto the surface of a two-m...
DATE: Nov 19, 2014
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At the stroke of 11am this morning, Bermuda fell silent for two minutes to honour our war dead. The tradition dates from the Armistice, which ended what was then called the Great War on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in...
DATE: Nov 11, 2014
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“A most dreadful tempest (and) hideous began to blow … at length (it) did beat all light from heaven, which like an hell of darkness turned black upon us … For four and twenty hours the storm in a restless tumult had blown so exceedingly as we could...
DATE: Oct 22, 2014
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Just last week Bermuda was patting itself on the back as the end of what had been forecast to be be a slower-than-normal hurricane season approached. Once again it looked as if we might run the annual June-November gauntlet without experiencing the ...
DATE: Oct 15, 2014
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Reality, it’s been said, is that which doesn’t go away even when you stop believing in it.
Substituting comforting fantasies for hard-edged realities may be a source of short-term solace to those whose preferred method of dealing with challenging, co...
DATE: Oct 07, 2014
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There have been hopeful signs of late that Bermuda’s long identity crisis as a tourism destination may finally be approaching some kind of successful resolution.
After 30 years of increasingly desperate Tourism Ministry attempts to market Bermuda as ...
DATE: Oct 04, 2014
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Harry Potter, it seems, has worked a kind of practical magic on his worldwide readership.
It’s been seven years since the last volume in the bestselling literary series of all time, the estimable Harry Potter & The Deathly Hollows, appeared and autho...
DATE: Sep 20, 2014
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A succession of recent tragedies cannot help but bring to mind another summer 75 years past when, as the poet said, “waves of anger and fear” spread around the world and “the unmentionable odour of death offends the September night.”
In the Near Eas...
DATE: Sep 17, 2014
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It’s one of Bermuda’s dirtiest — and worst kept — little secrets.
Domestic abuse is an increasingly ugly reality on the Island. But it is a subject which is all too talked around rather than talked about in polite company.
Despite commendable efforts...
DATE: Sep 09, 2014
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