A Season of Death is divided into five sections. In the first, Regeneration, Mark recounts the lifting of his grief over ...

Almost every presidential election since 1980 has had a double-digit gender gap. What do the polls suggest about next week’s?

Reading the well-known English satirist Craig Brown’s latest book, A Voyage around the Queen, I’m struck again by how, in terms of symbolic theatre, republics pale beside the multifaceted events and ...

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We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant political parties a few months before September’s presidential election.

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