• OPINION

  New space race to the Moon's South Pole

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/08/2023

  » Don't say "Moon Race". Perish the thought! But there is a race to land on the Moon, and the Russians are cheating. Well, sort of cheating.

• OPINION

  Iran nukes: End of the road for an agreement

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/07/2022

  » About six weeks ago Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), warned that the attempt to revive the 2015 deal that restricted Iran's ability to enrich uranium was on the brink of collapse. Three or four weeks more without an agreement, he said, would deal the talks a "fatal blow".

• 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

  Climate report: The language of the scientists

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/08/2021

  » There are 150 new coal-fired plants under construction or already approved and funded in the world, so you can't really say that we are taking global warming seriously yet. But at least the scientists who wrote the report on the state of play that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published on Friday are starting to use the right language.

• OPINION

  Israel and Hamas: Lies and a glimpse of truth

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/05/2021

  » First, three lies. The Gaza offensive has yielded "unprecedented military gains", said Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. The ceasefire last week amounted to a "victory" for the Palestinian people and a defeat for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, said a Hamas official. But the ceasefire brings "genuine opportunity" for progress, said US President Joe Biden.

• 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

  We're safe from non-existent nukes in Iran

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/04/2021

  » First, the good news. The US and Iran had talks in Vienna on Tuesday, and the nuclear deal they and all the other great powers signed in 2015 is coming back.

• OPINION

  Afghanistan: The same old sell-out

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/03/2021

  » In an letter to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani last weekend, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken insisted that Mr Ghani agree to share power with the Taliban insurgents in a transitional government, to be followed at some point by some sort of election. Understandably, the Afghan leader views this as a shotgun marriage in which the Taliban will hold the shotgun.

• OPINION

  HK and China: One country, one system

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/11/2020

  » One Hong Kong lawmaker, Claudia Mo, said it was "the death-knell of Hong Kong's democracy fight". But she was part of it: one of the 15 remaining pro-democracy members of the Legislative Council (Legco) who resigned last Thursday in protest at the expulsion of four other democratically elected members of the pseudo-parliament.

• OPINION

  Pantomimes, Brexit and Boris Johnson

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/10/2020

  » The British pantomime is a traditional Christmas entertainment in which stock characters face imaginary dangers and audience participation is encouraged ("He's behind you!"), but the play never frightens the children and it always has a happy ending.

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