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    Soft dictatorship threatens India's democracy

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/06/2023

    » We're not surprised when religious zealots in some benighted part of the American heartland ban the teaching of evolution in the local school, but what could have possessed the national government of a grown-up country like India to do the same thing?

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    Is it the end of populism, or just a pause?

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/06/2023

    » We're going to miss the populist "big beasts" now that they're gone. Who will now tell us that "Voting Conservative will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3"? (Boris Johnson) Who will describe Barack Obama as "handsome, young and also suntanned"? (Silvio Berlusconi)

  • OPINION

    In Ukraine, the fightback gets underway

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/06/2023

    » The furious speculation on whether the Ukrainian counter-offensive will succeed has been ongoing for several months already, so the first thing I must tell you is that I don't know. Nobody knows, not even the Ukrainians.

  • 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

    AI is not going to wipe humans out just yet

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/06/2023

    » I'm looking at a headline this morning that screams "AI Creators Fear the Extinction of Humanity", and I suppose they could turn out to be right. But it's still a bit early to declare a global emergency and turn all the machines off.

  • OPINION

    Have we passed the point of no return with AI?

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/06/2023

    » 'Sometimes I think it's as if aliens have landed and people haven't realised because they speak very good English," said Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI' (Artificial Intelligence), who resigned from Google and now fears his godchildren will become "things more intelligent than us, taking control".

  • OPINION

    Who will take over when Putin regime ends?

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/05/2023

    » Let us suppose that the current Russian regime collapses, with or without a Ukrainian military victory to give it a final shove. Who would be the least objectionable candidate to take over in Moscow?

  • OPINION

    The baby bonus just does not work any more

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/05/2023

    » I was one of five children -- not seen as a particularly big family in Newfoundland at the time -- and there was one year when we allegedly beat Guatemala to have the highest birth rate in the world. (That's probably not true, but people were proud of it anyway.)

  • OPINION

    Syria: The rehabilitation of dictator Assad

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/05/2023

    » There is no justice. Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator whose membership even the Arab League suspended 12 years ago, is off to Riyadh this week to celebrate his re-admission to the organisation. He will pay no price for his many crimes against humanity: the name of the game now is not retribution but 'rehabilitation'.

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    Turkey and its hundred-year culture war

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/05/2023

    » Turkey's elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for two decades, and he should really lose by a landslide. Imagine what the United States would be like if Donald Trump had been in power for 20 years, and that's what Turkey looks like today.

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