by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 6, 2018 | DailyFT
TRUST: gone I am a democratic-republican, I believe. I believe in the will of the people as exercised through a majority mandate being invested in elected representatives. The checks and balances that the three arms of government bring, commonly known as division...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 5, 2018 | DailyFT
LAW OF THE LAND: While republicans playing realpolitik have undermined the people’s mandate, democracy under siege begs the question of who owns the House. The President has proven craven to summon Parliament and its Speaker has proceeded painfully pragmatically. They...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 2, 2018 | DailyFT
POWER: plays – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara I am not often wrong. But when I err, I sometimes do so in spades. Sorry, but Homer nodded in his last column on many legal grounds. However, a ‘Mistake’ does not become a ‘Sin’ until or unless one refuses to acknowledge and...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 1, 2018 | DailyFT
I am not a political animal. Not enamoured of personages, I have sought out principled politicians who could or should have rescued Sri Lanka from the mire and turned our blessed isle’s face towards the sun again – after a bitter and brutal war, a failure to actively...
by Wijith DeChickera | Oct 31, 2018 | DailyFT
THE ETHIOPIAN HIS SKIN: With his true colours nailed to the mast, the ambitiously driven president has been exposed as being yet another realpolitik-playing politico. And with the naïve and sentimental protestations of an aggrieved prime minister ringing all the way...
