• OPINION

  Fascists really are coming in the United States

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/06/2021

  » Godwin's Law, coined in 1990, says that as a discussion on the internet grows longer, the likelihood of somebody being compared to Hitler or the Nazis rises inexorably towards 100%. But once in a very long while the comparison is correct.

• OPINION

  There's nothing special about democracy in US

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/01/2021

  » If I have to read one more hand-wringing article about the "crisis of American democracy" and what it means for the world, I'm going to retch.

• OPINION

  What if Trump triumphs again?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/09/2020

  » 'To lose one parent... may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness," wrote Oscar Wilde in his play The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895.

• OPINION

  Khashoggi and MBS's blunderers

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

  » If Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, were a burglar, he wouldn't be George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven. He'd be a cartoon burglar in a carnival mask and a top with black-and-white horizontal stripes, carrying a sack labelled "SWAG".

• OPINION

  Is Aussie political madness catching?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/08/2018

  » I happened to be in Canberra last Friday, speaking to a room full of journalists at the National Press Club, when the news came in, halfway through lunch, that Australia had a new prime minister. The moderator pointed out that the year is already two-thirds gone and it is "only three prime ministers till Christmas" -- and the China Daily's headline read "Australia changes its prime minister again, again, again, again, again".

• 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

  Silent majority in Catalonia need to find their voice

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 31/10/2017

  » It's been going on for a while. "Recently in Catalonia we have been living through a kind of 'soft' totalitarianism... the illusion of unanimity created by the fear of expressing dissent," wrote best-selling Catalan author Javier Cercas in the Spanish newspaper El Pais in 2014. Those who didn't want independence kept their heads down and their mouths shut, in other words.

• OPINION

  Muslims do fit in, though more slowly

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/04/2018

  » 'Every Continental [European] under the age of 40 -- make that 60, if not 75 -- is all but guaranteed to end his days living in an Islamified Europe," wrote polemicist Mark Steyn in 2006. "Native populations on the continent are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic."

• OPINION

  Reunification of Syria under Assad

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/01/2017

  » So far the end-game in Syria has played out in an entirely predictable way. All of Aleppo is back in the Syrian government's hands, that decisive victory for President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers has been followed by a ceasefire, and the Russians are now organising a peace conference in Astana, Kazakhstan for later this month.

• OPINION

  British petulance is shaping European Union's future

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/02/2016

  » What would you call a country that called for "a structure under which [Europe] can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom ... a kind of United States of Europe" at the end of the Second World War (Winston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join that structure when its European neighbours actually began building it (European Economic Community, or EEC, 1957)?

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