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The Slow Death of British High Street: the need of a retail visionary
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… In 2009, when asked about the prospect of Apple iPhone in a TV interview, which had been introduced for the first time by Steve Jobs a few months earlier,...
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Taxing: the good, the bad and the ugly
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… Phillip Hammond, the Chancellor of Exchequer, experienced the worst crisis in his political career a few days ago, when he hiked the National Insurance...
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Release of Samsung Galaxy S8: Will Samsung make it a game changer?
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… After a flurry of rumours, leaks and guesses that have been running for months, Samsung Galaxy S8 is going to be released on Wednesday, according to Samsung,...
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Falcon 9: SpaceX makes history with relaunch of a rocket
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… The launch of Samsung Galaxy S8 somewhat disappointed those who recently became Samsung converts, in search of a credible alternative to Apple’s iPhone, while...
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Trump vs Putin: the show of strength in the Syrian theatre
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… President Trump and President Putin, after all, are not very good friends, despite what we had been hearing during the presidential election campaign to the...
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Trump’s MOAB Strategy: is it a shoal of red herrings?
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… By dropping a MOAB – Massive Ordnance Air Blast – bomb, a perfect acronym for mother of all bombs, in Afghanistan against IS out of the blue, the United States...
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Mike Pence: President Trump’s Conduit to the Real World
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… As President Trump’s media-invented metric, 100-day-in-office, is just around the corner and his modus operandi, both at home and abroad, is under intense...
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Nuclear Deterrence: a meaningless short-cut to complacency?
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… The short-lived supremacy enjoyed by the United States from 1945 to 1949, owing to its possession of nuclear weapons, was almost on a par with the caveman, who...
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The French Election 2017:
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… The old cliché that there is a woman behind every successful man, is an evolving one: those who take it as gospel truth, often cite the statistics in support...
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Comey’s Fall and Trump’s Decisiveness
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… There seems to be no better public official in the US than James Comey, the former boss of the FBI, who could explain what it was like to be between a rock and...
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President Trump’s Trip to Europe: New Alpha Male in Town
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… Having completed a very successful diplomatic endeavour in the Middle East with his reputation for being a deal maker intact, President Trump visited the...
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British General Election: Theresa May’s gamble that didn’t pay off
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… Theresa May, the British Prime Minister who narrowly survived the general election on Thursday, is walking a tight rope at present, while knowing very well...
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Fall of Mosul: challenge before Iraqis outweighs the victory
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… Mosul in Iraq, the second largest city, has fallen – and in full ruins; Raqqa in Syria will suffer the same fate in the next few weeks, sounding the death...
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Poland to Remove Supreme Court Judges: an unprecedented move in a major...
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… The ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), which is hell bent on taking on the Supreme Court Judges, is slowly approaching their desired goal of a complete...
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Dealing with North Korea: has the US run out of options?
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… North Korea fired an ICBM – Inter Continental ballistic Missile – into the Sea of Japan on Friday, while calling the bluff of the Trump administration and the...
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