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The game is not over yet
It’s not time to give up on survival as yet. But we do need more time as it’s theoretically possible to hold the global temperature down Jonathan Franzen has finally seen the light. Unfortunately, it has blinded him. The distinguished American novelist and essayist wrote a piece in the current issue...
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A political thug in blunderland
09 September 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
The burning truth about wildfires
04 September 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
Johnson makes his Brexit move
30 August 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
Greenland's gamble
26 August 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
In denial of converging global crises
23 August 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
A never-ending culture of war
16 August 2019 | Gwynne Dyer -
Hong Kong: It's purely symbolic
06 August 2019 | Gwynne Dyer
Bug-eyed monster issue
We need to have an international discussion about whether we should make our existence known should the SETI research yield a positive result There is absolutely no procedure enshrined in international law to respond to a signal from an alien civilisation,” said Martin Dominik, an astronomer at the University of St...
The last PM of a ‘united’ kingdom?
The British are living in interesting times. Their Government, now headed by Boris Johnson, is hell-bent to drag the UK out of the EU It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom yesterday) is what you would get if US President Donald Trump...
Ukraine: The third revolution
Volodymyr Zelensky will once again stand the test of Parliament. Right or wrong, most Ukrainians believe that he is the real thing No promises, so no disappointments,” said Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky during the election campaign that made him the President last May. It was a daring, even cynical thing for a...
Refugee issue is for real
The problem is not to do with war but poverty, dictatorial regimes and climate change. We may feel sorry for them but there is no legal duty to let them in Every once in a while, a photograph of a migrant’s tragic death (usually that of a child) catches the public’s...
Dysfunctional and divided
The hawks in the White House probably know that Iran is too proud to crumble but they don’t care because they actually want a war Iran has “begun its march...towards nuclear weaponry,” said Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz and that is technically correct. Only one year and 60 days after President...
Not just a late monsoon
Food production is falling, people are dying, massive water refugees are moving and unfortunately, it’s only going to get worse The monsoon rains are finally arriving in central and northern India but they are two weeks late. It started raining in Mumbai last week and it should be raining in Delhi...
Ethiopia’s lucky premier
Abiy Ahmed has done everything he could think for the country and yet, he is in a very precarious position to have survived three deadly attacks Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is a very lucky man. He has survived three attempts to kill or overthrow him in the past year....
