• OPINION

  Israel heads to yet another poll in just 3.5 years

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 31/10/2022

  » Israeli voters are indefatigable. The election on Nov 1 will be the fifth in just three-and-a-half years, and yet the turnout is still likely to be around 70%. That's especially remarkable because all five elections have really been about the same question: should Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu go to jail, or should he be prime minister?

• OPINION

  The benign sociopath that is Elon Musk

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/11/2022

  » Elon Musk is that rarest of things, a benign sociopath, and therefore a person of considerable value to the world. He has just made a mistake that could ruin his long-term plan, for his purchase of Twitter is almost bound to end in tears. The sharks are always circling the very rich and highly geared, and I find myself worrying about him.

• OPINION

  3 steps forward, but 2.5 back for populism

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/10/2022

  » The reports about Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva's impending comeback as Brazilian president verged on the ecstatic in the week before the vote on Oct 2. He was after all, fourteen points ahead of his populist rival, incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro, in the last opinion poll before the vote.

• OPINION

  What shall we do with climate refugees?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/08/2022

  » You wait ages for the bus, and then three come along at once. Books are a bit like that, too, although in this case it's only a pair of them, both tackling the question of what to do about all the "climate refugees". (The United Nations' International Organization for Migration estimates that 1.5 billion people may be forced to move in the next thirty years alone.)

• OPINION

  Killing Darya Dugina: Ukraine own-goal?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/08/2022

  » 'Iam a political observer of the International Eurasianist Movement and an expert in international relations. In this capacity, I appear on Russian, Pakistani, Turkish, Chinese and Indian television channels. The situation in Ukraine is really an example of a clash of civilisations; it can be seen as a clash between globalist and Eurasian civilisation."

• OPINION

  How to stop sea level rise at its source

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/06/2022

  » 'Ninety percent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens of kilometres or less across. Stemming the largest flows would allow the ice sheets to thicken, slowing or even reversing their contribution to sea-level rise."

• OPINION

  War narrative a fable not fit for the times

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/05/2022

  » We were talking recently about how clever the Ukrainians had been to call the invading Russian troops "Orcs" even before all the atrocities in the Russian-occupied towns around Kyiv came to light. Then Tina said: "If Putin's troops are Orcs, then he must be Sauron."

• OPINION

  Ukraine: the reversal of expectations

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/05/2022

  » Two months ago, when Russian tanks first rolled into Ukraine, every message from Washington or Nato about the invasion included a prominent passage saying what the western alliance would not do.

• OPINION

  The impact of Russia's latest war atrocities

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/04/2022

  » Four years after the Soviet Army fought its way into Berlin in 1945, Moscow built a huge memorial in Treptower Park to the 80,000 Russian and other Soviet soldiers who died taking the city. (5,000 of them are actually buried in the park.) And Berliners instantly took to calling it the "Tomb of the Unknown Rapist".

• OPINION

  Ukraine: a short pause for thought

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/03/2022

  » Two weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine and still no "decapitation" of the Ukrainian government. In the past week, no city has been captured except Kherson, and maybe 2,000 military dead on each side.

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