• 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

  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

  Shipping is worse than aviation

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2021

  » 'We're waiting on food goods like coconut milk and syrups, some spare parts for motors, we've got some fork lift trucks, some Amazon goods on there, all sorts," said Steve Parks of Seaport Freight Services in England, who is awaiting twenty of the 18,300 containers aboard the Ever Given. Which of those things cannot be sourced from somewhere closer than Asia?

• OPINION

  Are we ready for the first real automatons?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/01/2021

  » They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence programme in Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, this month, to mark the invention of robots (or at least the idea of robots) in the same city exactly one hundred years ago. The coronavirus pandemic got in the way of that, and it will now only be available free online late next month. Kind of symbolic, really: the future is quite different than what they expected.

• OPINION

  Democracy survives crucial test in Senegal

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/04/2024

  » The crisis in Senegal, the one country in West Africa that has never had a military coup, has passed. Few people outside Africa were paying close attention to it, but I'm sure you will be pleased to know that democracy has survived.

• OPINION

  South Korea: Very competitive and childless

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/03/2024

  » There are enough people to go around: eight billion now, compared to two billion less than a hundred years ago. Fifty-one million in South Korea, compared to only twelve million a hundred years ago. So why are South Koreans obsessed about their low birth rate?

• OPINION

  Imran Khan: from cricket star to jailbird

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/02/2024

  » Pakistan's former prime minister, former cricket superstar and latter-day populist politician Imran Khan was having a quiet week in jail, six months into his three-year sentence for corruption, and suddenly all hell broke loose.

• OPINION

  Mideast missile madness gets even worse

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/01/2024

  » Not all that long ago, attacking another country's territory was still seen as a big deal. It was, in legal terms, an "act of war", liable to have unpleasant and potentially unlimited consequences, including full-scale war. Very powerful countries occasionally made small, one-off attacks on very weak ones to "discipline" them, but even that was relatively rare.

• OPINION

  Argentina must break its vicious political cycle

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/11/2023

  » Bertolt Brecht lived in Germany, not in Argentina, and he has been dead longer than he was alive, but his famous question applies to the Argentine election next Sunday: "Would it not be simpler if the government dissolved the people and elected another?"

• 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.

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