The Border Inquisitor
A very useful video recounting how George had a difficult time entering the UK. He was detained under an act featuring some of the finest Kafkaesque language used by democratic countries today—a stark reminder that fascism comes with a pat on the back.
https://youtu.be/c6bjRCysuv4?
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Alex Malcolm at ESPNcricinfo, 30 March 2026
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Dear Oxford Alumni Community,
I am pleased to let you know that, together with the Cambridge Society, we have secured the Colombo Rowing Club for this year’s Boat Race event next Saturday. This will be a joint OxBridge gathering, as is usually the case for the Boat Race. According to the official 2026 Boat Race information, the Women’s Boat Race is scheduled to begin at 14:21 UK time (18:51 Sri Lanka time) and the Men’s Boat Race at 15:21 UK time (19:51 Sri Lanka time) on Saturday, 4 April 2026.
Please note that the event is confirmed and will be held at the Colombo Rowing Club from 6pm onwards.
Warm regards,
Insaf Bakeer Markar, Secretary
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ABC
In the gilded vacuum of a Miami ballroom last Friday, the world was treated to the latest episode of the “Trump Doctrine”—a volatile cocktail of schoolyard bullying, delusional revisionism, and a terrifyingly literal interpretation of “might makes right.“
As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its most chaotic phase, President Donald Trump took to the stage at a Saudi-backed forum to settle scores. He didn’t just boast about his influence; he humiliated a key regional ally, claiming that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is now “kissing my ass” because he finally realized the U.S. isn’t a “dead country.” It was a performance defined by a disturbing disconnect: even as Saudi facilities burn from retaliatory Iranian strikes, Trump is more interested in whether the 90-year-old King Salman “likes him” than in the stability of the global energy market.
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Senake Weeraratne
The Reply of David Becker (Head of Legal, ICC) to Senaka Weeraratna was dismissive, disrespectful and patently wrong in the interpretation of law.The reply of the South African lawyer David Becker (Head of Legal, ICC) to Senaka Weeraratna in May 2010 on the question of the intellectual property rights over his brainchild ‘Player Referral’ which was rebranded by the ICC as the UDRS (Umpire Decision Review System), was dismissive, disrespectful and patently wrong in the interpretation of law. The legal doctrine of Constructive Notice was overlooked in Becker’s response. Constructive Notice acts as a legal presumption that a person has received notice, even if they actually have not, provided the information is public or easily accessible. Furthermore Becker’s reply was legalistic when the context demanded equity, fair play and simple Justice.
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Desert Traveller, whose original title runs thus: “The Gospel of “Bomb Diplomacy”: Trump, Hegseth, and the Death of the Global Order”
In the gilded vacuum of a Miami ballroom last Friday, the world was treated to the latest episode of the “Trump Doctrine”—a volatile cocktail of schoolyard bullying, delusional revisionism, and a terrifyingly literal interpretation of “might makes right.”
As the US-Israeli war against Iran enters its most chaotic phase, President Donald Trump took to the stage at a Saudi-backed forum to settle scores. He didn’t just boast about his influence; he humiliated a key regional ally, claiming that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is now “kissing my ass” because he finally realized the U.S. isn’t a “dead country.” It was a performance defined by a disturbing disconnect: even as Saudi facilities burn from retaliatory Iranian strikes, Trump is more interested in whether the 90-year-old King Salman “likes him” than in the stability of the global energy market.
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ON 29th March Evening …
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Lakshman Gunasekera
If the “primary objective” was to have an alternative international scale runway and complementary aircraft facilities, either A’pura or Trinco or Jaffna or even Batti would have been far cheaper safety and passenger-serving options rather than building anew an abandoned British colonial makeshift runway which has absolutely no demographic-commercial hinterland but only the birds to disturb. All four airports mentioned above have been constantly in use (for military and/or civilian needs) ever since they were built unlike the “Mattala”.
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Avishka Mario Seneviratne, whoose chosen title when Fr Aloy passed away recently, reads thus: ….. “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒆𝒘: 𝑭𝒓. 𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒖𝒔 𝑷𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑺𝑱 (𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟒-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔)”
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thuppahi
