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History
Dominique Olivier
Port Royal: the city that sank for its sins
Before there was Las Vegas, there was Port Royal: a city of pirates, plunder, and peril clinging to the southern edge of Jamaica. The 17th-century hotspot was once the beating, drunken heart of the Caribbean, until one Sunday in 1692, when the earth opened up and swallowed it whole (quite literally). There's more truth to Disney's tales of Captain Jack Sparrow than you might realise.
Dominique Olivier
Cancel culture: new methods, same principles
With the Donald Trump assassination all over the headlines, the iconic photo of the event reminded Dominique Olivier of a famous painting from the French Revolution. That got her thinking: is cancel culture really a new thing? Or just a social media equivalent of old habits?
