In a week where on one hand the Premier announces a truly spectacular line-up for the Bermuda Music Festival and on the other stifles democratic debate, the words of the Roman poet Juvenal spring worryingly to mind:
- … Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man,
- the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time
- handed out military command, high civil office, legions – everything, now
- restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things:
- bread and circuses
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