In June 2026, Keir Starmer announced that he would resign as UK prime minister, promising to “Do everything I can to ensure an orderly handover of power.” Less than two years earlier, he had led the ...

The government has indicated its intention to amend the retirement age of judges including judges of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. This has been causing to a significant debate among ...

The NPP’s election manifesto, A Thriving Nation – A Beautiful Life, promised to launch a state-sponsored public awareness campaign on corruption, fraud and bribery with the aim of empowering citizens ...

Morning Telegraph The tragic events at Negombo Prison have once again exposed deep structural weaknesses within Sri Lanka’s correctional and criminal justice systems. While investigations continue ...

The tragic events at Negombo Prison have once again exposed deep structural weaknesses within Sri Lanka’s correctional and criminal justice systems. While investigations continue into the precise ...

Contemporary nation-states face an unprecedented challenge: maintaining social cohesion when ethnic and religious identities assert themselves with renewed vigor. Sri Lanka, a nation of 22 million ...

On July 5, Sri Lanka witnessed the return of all too familiar violence. Rival factions of inmates, believed to be from rival drug gangs held within the same facility at Negombo Prison, allegedly ...

In the coming months, a climatic shift in the distant Pacific Ocean will deliver a blow to Sri Lanka’s fields, reservoirs and kitchens. An El Niño event, forecast to intensify through the latter half ...

Freedom of Expression (FoE) and Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) are sometimes viewed as competing rights: we are frequently told that to protect the sanctity of faith, we must muzzle the speaker ...

What follows is an account of the Sri Lanka state at present. I would like to characterise the present Sri Lankan state as a post-war state. In 2009 the military strategy started in 1979 succeeded in ...

It was my experience of conflicts and state repression during the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka that led me to examine the subject of the state and state power more closely. State repression was ...

There are thousands of bodies lying in mass graves across Sri Lanka, a legacy of its brutal and bloody past, which could reveal the fate of some of the thousands of missing people from the 26 year ...