• OPINION

  Can insurance come to our climate rescue?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/06/2023

  » California's fall from grace has been steep and swift, and now even the insurance companies are pulling out. The two biggest American home insurance companies, State Farm and Allstate, announced last week that they will stop selling insurance policies to Californians. Why? Climate change-related wildfires are making it too risky to insure Californian houses.

• OPINION

  Ukraine: Will Western tanks bring victory?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 31/01/2023

  » On Tuesday last week, they reset the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight. How did they know that Germany would agree to give Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday? Now we're all doomed! No time to run! Ninety seconds is barely time to tuck your head between your knees and kiss goodbye.

• OPINION

  Today it's Zuma, tomorrow it could be Trump

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/07/2021

  » Sooner or later ex-president Donald Trump is bound to be indicted for some crime. It doesn't matter which -- it could be a fraud or corruption charge, or a sexual offence, or incitement to violence, or even just tax evasion. (That's what finally got American gangster Al Capone.) And it doesn't matter whether he's convicted, either; the real drama will come before that.

• OPINION

  Ethiopia: War in Tigray still a tricky prospect

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/12/2020

  » 'Love always wins. Killing others is a defeat," said Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June 2018, shortly after surviving a grenade attack at a rally in Meskel Square in the capital, Addis Ababa. How was he to know that just thirty months after saying that he would have to stop loving and start killing?

• OPINION

  Is this crisis really a turning point?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/05/2020

  » People who look for silver linings (aka optimists) think that Covid-19 might be the inflection point where we start getting serious about our relationship with the planet. There's no direct link between coronavirus and climate change, but if a tiny virus can bring our whole bustling civilisation to a halt, then how vulnerable will we be to a disordered environment driven by out-of-control global heating?

• OPINION

  Fear of being blunt clouds climate issue

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/10/2018

  » They still haven't dropped the other shoe. The 'Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Celsius contains terrifying forecasts about what will happen when we reach an average global temperature one-and-a-half degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average. (We are now at +1C.) But it still shies away from talking about the feedbacks, the refugees, and mass death.

• OPINION

  Lula barred from fighting for presidency

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/09/2018

  » On Sunday, Brazil's top electoral court ruled that "Lula", former president Luiz Inácio da Silva, cannot run in the presidential election this October.

• OPINION

  Trump, Kim have reasons to be civil

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/03/2018

  » I think I know why President Donald Trump suddenly agreed to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after a year of mutual threats and verbal abuse.

• OPINION

  Poland pauses on march to autocracy

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/07/2017

  » Zofia Romaszewska, now in her 80s, was jailed during the years of martial law in Poland in the early 1980s. She is a national hero for her human rights activities in the 1980s and is now one of President Andrzej Duda's advisers. Last week she persuaded him to veto the government's new laws on the courts.

• OPINION

  Morsi verdict shows justice is not entirely dead in Egypt

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/11/2016

  » Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, has now been in prison more than three times as long as he was in the presidential palace, but his death sentence was quashed last week. On Tuesday, the country's highest appeal court also overturned his life sentence on a separate charge -- but that doesn't mean he's going to be free any time soon.

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