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Nothing has been demonstrated to unite a divided community more effectively than identifying a common enemy.
And demagogues, opportunists and garden variety political hacks the world over have a long, unhappy history of exploiting the latent anxietie...
DATE: Jul 22, 2014
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Arthur Rankin Jr’s name will forever be synonymous with Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Bermudian producer and director’s evergreen 1964 TV special based on the popular song launched his career and introduced his trademark story arcs about non-co...
DATE: Jul 19, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
Politicians the world over have a singular talent for identifying old grievances which can be depended on to yield occasional rewards in the form of popular support and votes. Whether this gift owes more to a vulture’s nose than an eagle’s eye is lar...
DATE: Jul 17, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
RG: In our opinion Just as the unswerving route of the old Bermuda Railway cuts across the landscape like a long, straight scar, so the story of controversial land expropriations mars Bermuda’s modern history.
Before construction could begin on that ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2014
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Like most island communities, Bermuda takes a gradualist, exceedingly cautious approach to the flotsam and jetsam of new-fangled ideas and notions from the outside world which wash up on our shores from time to time.
Anything which even remotely thre...
DATE: Jul 12, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
There was nothing remotely glamorous about Bermuda at the end of World War One. This was not yet the Bermuda of “beautiful estates and yachts, of stingers at noon and gin and tonics in the evening” as American journalist and columnist Jim Bishop was ...
DATE: Jul 09, 2014
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William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies is that genuine rarity, an assigned book in secondary schools which is not just read but positively devoured by most teenagers.
The 1954 novel inspires a visceral and almost universal identification among many youn...
DATE: Jul 07, 2014
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RG: Opinion
Bermuda does best when a rising economic tide lifts all boats, not just the yachts.
President Kennedy’s nautical-themed rule of thumb on shared prosperity seems particularly applicable in the wake of the recent Newport Bermuda classic.
T...
DATE: Jul 05, 2014
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Bermuda residents have not just the right but the duty to question received opinions, especially when they seem to favour the powerful or lazily attempt to justify the manifestly unjust.
And politicians, of course, believe they have the concurrent r...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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“Thirty years ago there stood, a few doors short of the church of Saint George, in the borough of Southwark, on the left-hand side of the way going southward, the Marshalsea Prison, (a) close and confined prison for debtors … It had stood there many ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2014
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