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Bermuda’s politicians are, rightly, being upbraided in some quarters for elevating magical thinking to the status of guiding philosophical principle. Wishing something to happen and actually making it happen are very different things.
One involves w...
DATE: Sep 01, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The origins of freedom of speech can be traced as far back in history as the signing of Magna Carta in early 13th-century England.
King John, backed into a corner after recent defeats on the battlefield and disagreements with the Pope, was forced to...
DATE: Aug 28, 2015
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How we manage our personal finances is a key factor in the standard of living we enjoy.
It can influence the education we can give our children, the type of home in which we live and whether retirement is truly a period of “golden years” or a grim b...
DATE: Aug 27, 2015
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The best actors possess a curious duality, one predicated on the contradictory need for self-exposure and self-protection.
They are “wide open, yet with no breaches in their armour”, as one renowned critic termed this paradoxical quality.
Defencele...
DATE: Aug 26, 2015
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It has to be presumed that Ice Queen did not provide the bladed object that played a significant role in the death of Johnathan Darrell early Saturday morning.
Nor can it be presumed that it was the Paget fast-food facility that implored hordes of pe...
DATE: Aug 24, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
A funny thing happened at St David’s County Cricket Club last Saturday. The second round of the Eastern Counties Cup was scheduled and an actual cricket match broke out.
Far from the shambles they were in the final last season, Flatts Victoria Recrea...
DATE: Aug 20, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
War is always a great evil, but as even pacifist Bertrand Russell conceded, under some extreme circumstances it may actually be the lesser of two evils. The Second World War [1939-1945] was a case study in just such circumstances.
The entire world wa...
DATE: Aug 19, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Jessica Lewis returns to Bermuda today. Remember her? You know, the 22-year-old who set the pulses racing when she smashed the record in the T53 100 metres wheelchair race at the Parapan American Games in Toronto last Thursday.
Her performance was go...
DATE: Aug 17, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Today marks a watershed moment in the history of The Royal Gazette and its approach to a pastime that has sustained its popularity among our citizens over the past three decades and more, but has struggled to command column inches in the only daily n...
DATE: Aug 17, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
“You can say what you want about me, but don’t you dare talk about my momma.”
Those are the well-worn words of many a Bermudian man, who might allow the most vile insult to be mouthed about his father, but then will “go Casemates” to stand up for his...
DATE: Aug 14, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion