Opinion

The apology that never came

Prabir Purkayastha: HOW should we remember Queen Elizabeth II and her 70 years on the British throne? It is perhaps better to consider after the media parade about her funeral

Lanka needs to give amnesty to protesters

Jehan Perera: NONE too soon, president Ranil Wickremesinghe appears to be putting the brakes on the government’s policy of repression in dealing with public protests. His decision to initially sign

Timing of the pipeline attack

The United States had already forced Germany to shut down Nord Stream II, but there are signs that an end to the Ukraine war would have put it back online,

66 nations at UN say ‘End war in Ukraine’

‘Too much blood has been spilled’ – Medea Benjamin and Nicolas JS Davies highlight a few of the many under-reported appeals made at the General Assembly for peaceful negotiations WE HAVE spent the past

BNP up against ruling class alliance, not just AL

Afsan Chowdhury: THE last few weeks have seen several violent confrontations between AL and BNP activists and future meets are not expected to be different. After a longish phase since

We have a Sheikh Hasina

We may not have a Joe Biden to add a new chapter to American history or a Vladimir Putin to push back the boundaries of Russian territory by military might;

What’s the future of Russia’s Ukraine war?

How will Putin’s shock tactics – mobilisation, annexation and nuclear threat – affect the course of the war? Volodymyr Artiukh writes SEVEN months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has

Without culture, freedom is impossible

Vijay Prashad: IN 2002, Cuba’s president Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country’s National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival. Founded in 1948 by the prima ballerina