• OPINION

  France's latest crude, culinary counter-offensive

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/09/2023

  » The French government has just published a decree banning the use of terms like "steak", "spare ribs" and "ham" on plant-based foods. Sausages and "poultry nuggets" will escape the ban so long as the plant protein content is less than 6%.

• OPINION

  A tale of two bombs -- in Manchester and Bangkok

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/05/2017

  » There were two bombs on Monday. The one in Britain killed at least 22 people and injured 120 as they came out of a concert at Manchester Arena. It was carried out by a suicide bomber named Salman Abedi and claimed by the Islamic State (IS). The other was in Thailand, and injured 22 people at a military-linked hospital in Bangkok; nobody has claimed responsibility yet. But what happened afterwards was very different.

• OPINION

  The unravelling of Burma's military rule

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/12/2023

  » The Burmese army is a leading candidate for Nastiest Army in the World. Even more than Pakistan's army, it is the tail that wags the dog: rather than the army serving the country, it's the other way around.

• OPINION

  The Gaza Strip: Creating a free-fire zone

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/10/2023

  » Armies never tell you what their strategy is, but if you look at the problems they are faced with, you can usually figure it out.

• OPINION

  Zimbabwe and a dose of 'ruling party syndrome'

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/08/2023

  » 'No one will stop us from ruling this country. You will be lost if you don't vote for Zanu-PF," said President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe. A bit more arrogant than the usual election pitch in most parts of the world, perhaps, but not unusual in Zimbabwe, one of the southern African countries suffering from "ruling party" syndrome.

• OPINION

  Could Boris Johnson make a comeback?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/09/2022

  » As a child, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly said he wanted to be "King of the World". He ended up in a somewhat humbler role, was rejected by his own party's members of parliament for his mendacity, corruption and incompetence, and will hand over to his successor, Liz Truss, on Monday. But the Fat Lady still hasn't sung.

• OPINION

  Farewell to neutral Sweden and Finland

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/05/2022

  » It's easy to imagine Vladimir Putin coming into the shop marked "Sweden", breaking some fine china accidentally on purpose, and growling: "Nice little shop you've got here. It would be a pity if something happened to it." But Sweden is not a pottery shop, Mr Putin is not a Mafia capo, and what's going on in the Baltic now is not a protection racket.

• OPINION

  Why this year's COP26 isn't going to deliver

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/10/2021

  » 'The world is on a catastrophic pathway to 2.7°C of heating," said UN Secretary General António Guterres. "There is a high risk of failure of COP26." That's the global climate summit that meets every five years (but was postponed last year because of the pandemic) to plot a course away from climate disaster. And it really isn't looking good.

• OPINION

  Some good news on the climate front

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/06/2021

  » 'I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality," said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit too soon. Last Wednesday a Dutch court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world's biggest oil companies, must cut its global carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030.

• OPINION

  Someone like 'Bibi' can't lose in Israel

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/05/2021

  » A tempest in a small teapot this week, as Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of "apartheid".

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