JONATHAN STARLING

Sun closure: Businesses have no intrinsic interest in a free press

Jonathan Starling: At the moment, and I think the demise of the Sun is symbolic of it, journalism, as an institution, appears to be in freefall in Bermuda today.

Pity the OBA investigation was the result of spin control

Jonathan Starling: Despite the apparent wishful thinking (or perhaps delirium?) of some, the ‘JetGate’ scandal is far from becoming ‘DeadGate’.

Not all drug use is abusive

Jonathan Starling: While MPs should be sober, drug tests do not test one’s current functions, only one’s past use of drugs.

Drug tests for MPs a gimmick

Jonathan Starling: The push to drug-test MPs has a long political history. It started under the Reagan administration of the 1980s, when the ‘war on drugs’ was accelerated, despite evidence that drug use was declining.

Dunkley’s leadership on drugs has been weak

Jonathan Starling: For many who thought the OBA Government represented new hope, the last few weeks and months have been disappointing.
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The reactionary populism of drug testing MPs

Jonathan Starling: On Friday the House of Assembly debated - I use that word loosely when it comes to our Parliament - a motion regarding drug testing MPs.

We need campaign finance reform now

Jonathan Starling: The recent launch of Think Media and its opening story 'Selling Bermuda' highlights one of the key reasons why we need campaign finance reform now.

‘No winners in Ukraine’

Jonathan Starling: There are no 'good guys' in the Ukraine situation right now.

We need a socialist alternative

Jonathan Starling: The two-party system, be it PLP/UBP or PLP/OBA, has helped deform our island’s political maturity, and limited our political discourse with a limited vision of what could be.

Ukrainians face fascists on one side, Russians on the other

Johnathan Starling: The situation in Ukraine is very serious but I don’t think we’re in the run-up to World War III or even a full-blown return to the Cold War.
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Bigotry underscores woeful standard of parliamentary debate

Jonathan Starling: Mental health is nothing to joke about, or bandy around as an insult, nor something to be used for scoring political points.

CASINOGATE / COMMENT

The trust deficit in the OBA is too great

Jonathan Starling: The Premier may be right that we're seeing the 'politics of division and personal destruction', however, he's wrong to blame the PLP completely.

The Bermuda Sun bids farewell...

JUL 30, 2014: It marked the end of an era as our printers and collators produced the very last edition of the Bermuda Sun.

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