Opinion

Wed, 22 Jan 2025, 06:35 am

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A coalition to stay in power isn’t what Lanka needs

WATER skiers ride the waves. The bigger the wave the higher they go. Those who try to duck away go under the wave. It seemed that president Ranil Wickremesinghe would

Free speech, academic freedom in US corporate univs

FREE speech and academic freedom are under attack in American higher education. From the right the allegation is that wokeness and political correctness have taken over, articulating a political agenda

Will the weather eventually provoke radical action on climate?

WITH two world summits on the global environment at the end of last year — COP27 and COP15 — there should have been the prospect of an immediate impact on

More than just sports icons

In different ways, there was something endearing about Pelé and Ali. Pelé’s charm was obvious. Ali’s charm was harder to explain, but there was never any doubt about his magnetism,

Decoding Israeli ‘extremism’

‘These are the basic lines of the national government headed by me: The Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel. The

Covid: Time to rethink China’s invulnerability?

CHINA’S brand as a very secure and strong state mechanism was enormously strengthened as a result of the Covid crisis. Although China was the spawning ground of the global virus,

2022 and margins of victory in Palestine

ANOTHER critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables to

The world won’t escape the aftermath

SELDOM in European history has an invading power so exaggerated its own strength, and underestimated that of its enemy to the degree that Russia did when it attacked Ukraine on

Keep writing! Literature from Afghanistan

IN REGIONS stricken by war and crises or in repressive states, authors often find themselves in a dire situation. After all, it is always the free word that is first

Another blistering year next year?

Once damaging weather systems disrupt what the world depends upon, like grain supplies, at some point in time universal distress takes over people’s behaviour as they start figuring out what