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Almost half of Bermudians believe Donald Trump will damage the island because of his temperament, radical views and tax policies, according to a poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette. Some 45 per cent of registered voters fear United States Presiden...

There is little doubt that America is very divided after terribly bitter campaigns that culminated in Republican Donald Trump being elected to replace the outgoing President Barack Obama as the 45th commander-in-chief of the most powerful nation in t...

Many, many years ago, a math professor often repeated a French term, which means “I am doctoring my own ignorance”. True to those words, life has been a journey of unmasking my own ignorance, sometimes referred to as naivety. For example, I thought e...

Nick Christopher from the hit Broadway musical Hamilton has described the “horrific and surreal” backlash the cast have suffered since incurring the wrath of Donald Trump. The Bermudian actor has endured racist abuse on Twitter following the inciden...

Hey, Democrats, want help to rally the country around Donald Trump? Here is a great idea: have a crowd of wealthy, out-of-touch Manhattan liberals, who can afford $849 tickets to Hamilton, boo Vice-President-elect Mike Pence while the cast of the Bro...

The presidential election in the United States was contested by one of the most controversial candidates in the country’s history. Now president-elect Donald Trump is poised to become commander-in-chief, a reality that is still reverberating across t...

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...

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...

I was born on June 2, 1918, in New York City. Woodrow Wilson was president, the United States was fighting the First World War and women could not vote in this country. It would be another two years before women could vote in US elections. But when t...

Few people are unaware of the massive political divisiveness that has many Americans extremely concerned about the outcome of that nation’s most contentious presidential election in its history. When President Delano Roosevelt made the statement dur...

On Tuesday, The New York Times reported, Colin Powell announced at an event on Long Island that he would be voting for Hillary Clinton. This is news. Below, in an as-yet-not-quite-hacked e-mail, Powell explains himself. “OK, America. Before you say a...

The self-defeating passivity of President Barack Obama’s policies in the Middle East may have reached its apotheosis this month at a National Security Council meeting that he chaired. On the table were options for responding to the bloody and crimina...