Count Binface vs. The Monster Raving Loony Party By Gwynne Dyer At the time of writing there is still hope that Count Binface can pull off a surprise by-election win and dethrone Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, who has led the opinion polls in Britain for the past two years. The danger is that […]
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Netanyahu’s Remaining Options By Gwynne Dyer “The graveyards are full of indispensable men,” said former French Premier Georges Clemenceau about a century ago, and it’s still true. Israel’s precisely timed surprise attack on Iran on 28 February killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and seven of his closest allies in thirty seconds, but they turned out
Venezuela: Things Could Change By Gwynne Dyer Bad things happen, and some of them are nobody’s fault. Big earthquakes in Venezuela are about a century apart (1812, 1902, 2026), so you can’t blame the planners and the politicians for not being well prepared for this one. How high a priority should they have given to
Colombia: Don’t Rock the Boat By Gwynne Dyer “He won, BIG!” exulted Donald Trump on Truth Social, welcoming the victory of Abelardo De La Espriella, his preferred candidate for the presidency of Colombia, in last Monday’s election. In fact De La Espriella won only very small, less than 1 percent ahead of his left-wing opponent
17 June 2026 Assassination as State Policy By Gwynne Dyer Britain’s soon-to-be-ex prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is so harmless and ineffectual that it’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to kill him, but somebody in Russia apparently did. On Monday two foreign construction workers were found guilty in London’s Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court) of
14 June 2026 The Irish Question By Gwynne Dyer Last week’s violence in Northern Ireland, not really a ‘protest’ but an organised pogrom, is being seized on by the British and international hard right as further evidence that ‘out-of-control immigration’ is fueling the justifiable anger of the beleaguered (and soon to be replaced) white majority.
10 June 2026 Middle Eastern Wars: Wait for September By Gwynne Dyer Last Tuesday US President Donald Trump told journalists that the United States and Iran are “in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal.” On Wednesday, after an American helicopter gunship crashed in the Strait of Hormuz, presumably downed
7 June 2026 Solar Storms: One Thing Less to Worry About? By Gwynne Dyer Solar storms are not even in my top five threat list to humankind (nuclear war, asteroid strikes, super-volcano eruptions, a supernova within 30-50 light years, and intergalactic pirates), but they are still worth talking about. Especially because there may be an
“The war is over,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday, but it isn’t. In the Persian Gulf there is a sort-of ceasefire between the United States and Iran that is reluctantly observed by Israel too, but there are air strikes between American and Iranian forces around the Gulf on most days.
A consensus has emerged, at least in Western media, that we are on the brink of a real war with the gloves off, maybe even a ‘world war’. The Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will overrun the rest of Europe as soon as he is finished with Ukraine. Donald Trump will invade Cuba even before he