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Image: Pubfront July 2015 http://www.northumberlandarms.co.uk/ @klimek78
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Right to bear arms or to bare arms?
Us and Them! Them or Us?
The sense of belonging is a natural human instinct; one that
is cultivated throughout life, but it can have its drawbacks, and even dangers.
Those dangers rest in every country, in every walk of life,
and we need to trace their roots. To do
so, I must try here to emulate the great Alistair Cooke, with a soliloquy that
if it cannot match his style, it can ramble in much the same way to get to one
vital point he always wanted to leave with his vast audience.
My point here is that danger begins when "us and them" becomes "them or us!"
Well to everyone's relief, at least those who have Saint Helena’s best interests at
heart, the enquiry cleared it of the worst things the UK tabloid press and some
“Non-well-wishers” had accused it of. Sasha Wass's report did go in to considerable detail about the island’s governance – the subject
that concerns me – hence this follow-up blog. Both local newspapers had given a lot of
coverage of the findings, but they and the Island, in my view could do with
suggestions on “Where to go from here”.
