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As enraging as it is that President-elect Donald Trump ran a racist and xenophobic presidential campaign, it is even more galling that he is elevating to a senior position in the White House the man who unabashedly took white supremacy out of the sha...

Stories of shady Russian influence abounded during the American election campaign, but the evidence in them was often sketchy and the eventual benefits to Russia questionable. The European Union, for its part, is dealing with a scandal in which both ...

The recent release of paedophile John Malcolm White without public notification, without treatment and without parole supervision after only 12 years of an 18-year sentence has understandably raised public concern. There are a number of issues raised...

Since the presidential election last week, Facebook’s role in policing fake news on its site has become a very hot topic. And it should be. Throughout the election, Facebook’s behaviour has exposed what seems to be a great contradiction at its heart....

With lots of talk about the role of the electoral college in the United States and delegates in Bermuda versus direct elections, it may be useful to understand their origins. In 1796 during its beginnings, the US had a practical problem on how to cho...

Growing old is not for cissies, or so the adage goes, but we’re doing a better job at it now than at any time in history. The average life expectancy for a man 100 years ago was not much more than 50. It is now nearly 80. Can we expect adding another...

Within the past few weeks, the Bermuda Community Foundation released close to $500,000 in grants to more than 40 non-profit organisations. It was a boost to the work of the civil sector, without doubt. And we accomplished it while, for the most par...

The safety pin-wearing Left is aghast at the realisation that president-elect Donald Trump could actually follow through on his promise to “cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama” on his first d...

Everyone has a story to tell; some happy, some sad, some exciting, some bad. This is my story, a little bit of all of that. I was born August 1, 1930, and as a youngster growing up I thought everyone had a holiday for me, but of course it was Emancip...

In 1777, when Britain received words of the drubbing its forces had suffered at Saratoga to the American rebels, a friend of Adam Smith’s exclaimed that “the nation was ruined”. The wise philosopher calmly replied: “There is a great deal of ruin in a...