• 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

  The who and why of Gaza hospital blast

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/10/2023

  » The blame game has gone into high gear. It started with the massacre perpetrated in Israel two weeks ago by the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip for the past 17 years. US President Joe Biden called it "sheer evil", and a chorus of other voices said the same.

• OPINION

  What Wagner's revolt means to Putin's war

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/06/2023

  » The Don is a much bigger river than the Rubicon, but Yevgeny Prigozhin and his army crossed it anyway on Friday.

• 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

  What's next for Ukraine as the siege goes on?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/03/2022

  » Russian troops are stalled for the third week outside most of the major cities of eastern and central Ukraine, but they have failed to surround and cut off any of them except Mariupol, the big port on the Black Sea that has become the Ukrainian "Stalingrad". Indeed, Ukrainian counter-attacks are driving the Russians back some distance in a few places.

• OPINION

  Warming in the Arctic at tipping point?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/05/2018

  » Here are two interesting facts. One is that the winter temperatures in the Arctic this year were the highest ever recorded. On two days in February, it was actually warmer at the North Pole than it was in Zurich, Switzerland. At one location in Greenland, the temperature was 36C higher than the usual average for that time of year.

• OPINION

  Why China won't budge on N Korea

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/11/2017

  » Over the next few days, Donald Trump will be visiting the leaders of Japan, South Korea and China, and the same topic will dominate all three conversations: North Korea. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in will be looking for reassurance that the United States will protect them from North Korea's nuclear weapons, but in Beijing Mr Trump will be the supplicant.

• OPINION

  In Russia, the really dangerous ones are sane

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/04/2024

  » There are plenty of crazies in Russian politics who make bizarre claims about their country's victim status ("the evil West made us do it") and issue blood-curdling but implausible threats about using nuclear weapons on their enemies. But the really dangerous ones are quite sane.

• OPINION

  Israel held hostage -- and  Joe Biden, too

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/01/2024

  » Israel is withdrawing some troops from Gaza because the reservists who were called up for the fighting amount to 10%–15% of the country's workforce and the economy is showing the strain. But "nobody is talking about doves of peace flying", said a senior Israeli official. The intense fighting in Gaza will continue "for six months at least".

• OPINION

  The frog, the scorpion and Hamas

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/11/2023

  » Stop me if you've heard this story before. Or rather, don't, because it's relevant to the current situation, and we have to bring the people who don't know the story up to speed first.

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