Finally, the world is uniting against the Cabal and the control
I’ve covered a lot of rallies in my time, but I’ve never seen anything like what unfolded in London on September 13. An enormous number of people flooded the streets for Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally. The atmosphere was electric. It wasn’t just another protest; it felt like a cultural revolution in motion.
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News Item in The Island, 15 September 2025… with this title “DIMO Installs Sri Lanka’s first ICC-compliant LED floodlights for stadiums”
Advanced features include zoned lighting control for partial stadium use … [with activation here in TPS made possible by KK de Silva, of St Aloysius College cricket in the mid-late 1950s and the SL Admin-Service]
Reinforcing its leadership in sports infrastructure development, DIMO has successfully completed the installation of Sri Lanka’s first and second LED floodlighting systems at two of the country’s most iconic cricket stadiums. The first installation was completed at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium (RDICS) in 2023, followed by the second at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium (RPICS) in Colombo in 2025.
This milestone builds on DIMO’s historic achievement in the 1980s, when it made global headlines by installing Sri Lanka’s first and the world’s second floodlighting system at RPICS, cementing its legacy as a pioneer in sports lighting technology.
Michael Roberts
This epic and fascinating TV series serial has brought its curtains down and called it a night [to alter the idiom]. My first intimation of this event was in reading Ed Potten’s account in The Australian 13-14 September 2025 ….but I cannot access this news item because the !@#!$!!! paper demands money for web-access ….even though I receive the print-paper daily.
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Downton Abbey is … {was] ….. a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. It first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV on 26 September 2010 and in the United States on PBS, which supported its production as part of its Masterpiece Classic anthology, on 9 January 2011. The show ran for fifty-two episodes across six series, including five Christmas specials.
‘Downton Abbey’ Duo Talk Success And Controversy, But Some Questions Are Off Limits
Tom Branson and Lady Mary return for the final Downton Abbey movie(Image: Rory Mulvey/Focus Features)
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Being CHAPTER ELEVEN of The George Steuart Story 1835-1985 ++
When a young Sri Lankan walked into the office of George Steuart on February 1, 1953, no one is likely to have imagined that he would become not only the first Sri Lankan Chairman of what was then essentially a British firm, but also the youngest man to hold that important office.
The young man, whose name was John Francis Anthony Paul Peries, and was generally known as Tony Peries, had been edu cated at St. Joseph’s College, Colombo, and had applied for a post as a trainee Tea Taster. His father, ·W. Peries, a Director of Mackwoods, was held in the highest esteem in agency circles.
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Vithushan Ehantharajah, in ESPNcricinfo, 13 September 2025, where the title is
With Duckett and Smith rested, Buttler and Salt’s dominant stand revived a proven pairing heading into the World Cup
Phil Salt and Jos Buttler took England to 100 in the powerplay • Darren Staples/AFP via Getty Images
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Michael Roberts
An EMAIL Exchange with Vinod Moonesinghe recently prompted me to search for relevant literature and I came across this text from my hand in People Inbetween (1989, Sarasavi Publications, page 111).
“In brief, in the 1900s and 1910s the literati who engaged themselves in English drama developed no synthesizing link with the Sinhala theatre which was flourishing at the same time in and around the Tower Hall in Maradana, Colombo. The latter, as we know, had some awareness of the Western theatrical traditions [81]. Our speculative point is that the fertilizing influence, such as it was, moved in one direction only. 
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Shashank Kishore in ESPNcricinfo, 9 September 2025, where his title runs thus “Back-to-back games plus travel ‘not ideal’ – Asalanka, Rashid on gruelling schedules”
“If you start complaining about these things, it affects your performance on the field,” Rashid Khan says.
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