Romer Cherubim

Romer Cherubim is a UK-based freelance journalist covering current affairs, culture, and human-interest stories.

September 9, 2026

Why Tamil Nadu Keeps Killing Its Own Projects

The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government has announced the cancellation of a series of projects initiated by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which governed Tamil Nadu from 2021 to 2026. Among them

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI’s Mathematical Breakthrough Triggers a Battle Over Credit and Ethics

OpenAI has claimed to have solved one of the most celebrated problems in the history of mathematics: the “existence and smoothness” problem of the Navier–Stokes equations, one of seven Millennium Problems identified by the Clay Mathematics Institute, each carrying a

September 9, 2026

Anthropic Researcher Resigns, Warning AI Race Could ‘Gamble With Our Lives’

Artificial Intelligence

A young researcher at Anthropic, Jacob Coxon, has resigned from the company, warning that the race to develop increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems is

Germany’s Far-Right Surge Tests, But Does Not Upend, Democracy

Geopolitics

The German Embassy in Colombo has sought to clarify Germany’s political situation following news of a surge for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)

Bravo Brooklyn Beckham!

June 21, 2026

Arts/Columns/Social

The latest episode in the ongoing feud between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents Victoria and David Beckham played out publicly in an advert Brooklyn has just done for the food service delivery

My Student Days in Moscow

June 6, 2026

Columns/Geopolitics

Some time ago, I received an invitation from my Sri Lankan friend Ramani to join a WhatsApp group of Sri Lankans, who had studied Russian at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow at