• 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

  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

  Looking back at the October Revolution

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/11/2017

  » China Mieville, a novelist I much admire, has published a history of the "October Revolution" to mark its hundredth anniversary (which is actually on Nov 7, since the Russians were still using the Julian calendar in 1917). It had an unusual effect on me. It made me question whether I was right about the utter futility of that revolution.

• OPINION

  Indonesian poll serves up a curious outcome

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/02/2024

  » Indonesia's President Joko Widodo concluded his second five-year term last Tuesday with a national election in which his chosen successors won a convincing victory. "Jokowi", as everybody calls him, still enjoys 70% public approval, and he has every right to be proud of his past.

• OPINION

  So difficult to choose: Canada or the Quad?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/09/2023

  » First Prize: Two Fabulous Days in Beautiful Delhi! Second Prize: Four Days In Delhi!

• OPINION

  Is Najib Bukele the world's coolest dictator?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/08/2023

  » 'It's not perfect, but it's good. We've done something really good here," said El Salvador's vice-president, Felix Ulloa, defending the government's no-quarter war against the street gangs that have dominated the Central American republic for decades. President Nayib Bukele agrees, calling himself "the instrument of God".

• OPINION

  Unrest stems from France's turbulent past

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/07/2023

  » On Saturday, the fifth day of violent protests all over France against the police killing of an unarmed teenager, Nahel Merzouk, the daily arrests dropped below 1,000 for the first time, but the violence became even more extreme.

• OPINION

  Massacres and guns, from the US to Serbia

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/05/2023

  » Here's how to sound wise when writing a story about mass killings and gun control. Last week saw two such massacres in Serbia (eight deaths and nine deaths, respectively) and only one in the United States (eight killed in a mall in Allen, Texas).

• OPINION

  3 wars, 2 truces: at least some hope out there

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/04/2022

  » Two weeks ago, the three biggest wars in the world were in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Yemen. Now truces have silenced the guns and the air strikes in two of the three. They are only temporary truces so far, but there is a reasonable chance that they could grow into something more permanent.

• OPINION

  Can Navalny change Russia like Lenin did?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/01/2021

  » When Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow on Sunday after convalescing in Germany from an attempted poisoning by the FSB domestic spy agency, the regime-friendly media loyally failed to mention his arrival. With one striking exception: Vremya, the flagship news show of Russian state television.

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