The President's Resigning Is a Sign of the End of the Government

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Protesters say they won't leave the grounds of the palace until the prime minister and president have officially left office. Leo moranis: This is a country with deep, deep ethnic divisions. It's a country that had a 26 year long civil war - yet this government's catastrophic inaptitude has brought luncins together.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, announced he will step down on Wednesday after protestors occupied Colombo, the country’s capital, over the weekend. Whoever succeeds him will inherit a host of thorny economic problems. Why Europe’s big tech firms are well placed to weather a downturn. And remembering Peter Brook, an extraordinary theatre director who died at the age of 93. To sign up for tomorrow’s webinar about Britain’s future after Boris Johnson’s resignation, sign up at www.economist.com/boris-resigns.