by Wijith DeChickera | Jul 8, 2015 | DailyFT
When the 8 January revolution was launched, it was envisaged that the nascent movement to reintroduce democratic-republicanism to the island would encounter much opposition. The Government at the time – a regime that had been incumbent for a decade –...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 10, 2015 | DailyFT
Many who take a via media view of the so-called victories won by the passage of 19A see a mixed bag of results. One of the key areas in which the outcome was quite different to what was anticipated by the architects of the cornerstone piece of legislation is the...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 3, 2015 | DailyFT
The Government appointed more Ministers recently, pictured here with President Maithripala Sirisena I think you might have read with some interest – or no small measure of irritation – the news that the Government has appointed five more...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 28, 2015 | DailyFT
Westminster it isn’t. At least, not in terms of rapier-sharp wit and scintillating repartee! But provoke the firebrand rabble-rousers in Parliament long and hard enough, and sooner or later – out pops the cloven hoof… the forked tongue – and...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 22, 2015 | DailyFT
Comparisons are odious. As we said in this column last week, urging a principled government minister not to contrast the administration of which he is a part with the one immediately past. Because the virtue of a republican government must stand on its own...
