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  The end of Theresa May

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on May 31, 2019

  THE vultures of the British Conservative Party have gathered, and the individual who seemed to thrive in failure, to gain momentum in defeat, has finally...

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  Ministerial ‘non-responsibility’

  by M Jashim Ali Chowdhury | Updated at 12:00am on May 31, 2019

  MINISTERIAL responsibility in its Westminster sense presents a curious blend of individual, departmental and institutional chain of accountability. Civil servants are accountable to the minister...

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  Lanka suspicion of Muslim community politically fuelled

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on May 30, 2019

  THE bombai-mutai seller said that sales were poor. People who once bought his sweets were today treating him differently because he was a Muslim. He...

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  ‘India is much more dangerous than it was 10 years ago’

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 30, 2019

  Celebrated Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, best known for works such as The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, has also made...

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  The ‘nobody’ who led everyone nowhere

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 30, 2019

  Doubtless Theresa will be remembered as a victim of circumstances, but those circumstances should never have arisen in the first place. It takes a peculiar...

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  Demise of the republic?

  by Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2019

  A DEBATE is taking place behind the closed doors of our nation’s think tanks. It is disturbing: could the American republic meet its demise just...

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  A time to read, a time to remember Prof Abu Mahmud

  Afsan Chowdhury | Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2019

  READING to review a book of this kind is not easy but as it belongs to a past almost lost. This is particularly so when...

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  The US-China decoupling

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2019

  The long, dense economic relationship appears to have passed its peak, writes Patrick Lawrence PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s trade war with China is swiftly taking a...

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  Modi’s credo of divide and rule

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2019

  India is following an international trend: with the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a party succeeds which can clearly be located on the extreme...

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  Towards an anti-fascist AI

  by Dan McQuillan | Updated at 12:00am on May 28, 2019

  COMPUTERS are essentially just faster collections of vacuum tubes. How can they emulate human activities like recognising faces or assessing criminality?Think about a least squares...