What Happened to the Prime Minister?

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Two months to the day before this week protests, a bunch of government goodens had shown up at the protests that broke out. Leo: What do you think is behind the level of anger we've seen from a protestress? "Shilanka was not a poor country. Had plawed its way to upper middle income status"

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.