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 […]
800 words (700) 16 April 2025 African Scoreboard By Gwynne Dyer Last Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “Many have given up on Sudan, but that is wrong. It’s morally wrong when we see so many civilians beheaded, infants as young as one subjected to sexual violence, more people facing famine than anywhere else
20 March 2024 Non-White Britain By Gwynne Dyer Nobody planned it, hardly anybody realised it was happening, and suddenly there it was: done. In the space of less than two years, the entire senior leadership of Great Britain has become non-white. I’m choosing my words carefully here, because the country as a whole is called
9 May 2022 By Gwynne Dyer Four months ago Jonathan Powell warned that the ‘Good Friday’ agreement of 1998 that ended thirty years of killing in Northern Ireland was at risk. “What worries me is the casual political vandalism. They really don’t seem to care (about) the damage they are doing to the very fragile
30 March 2022 Do the Russians Have War in Their Blood? By Gwynne Dyer The geopolitical views of my grandmother, Florence O’Driscoll, could have been summed up in seven words: ‘The Germans Have War in their Blood’. Even as a child I suspected that the world must be more complicated than that, but I never
26 January 2022 Boris Johnson: The Long Goodbye By Gwynne Dyer The plot couldn’t be more familiar: criminal mastermind gets away with endless daring escapades, and is brought down in the end by some silly little mistake. That’s Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who slid effortlessly through endless scrapes and scandals that would have finished
January 13, 2022 · by GWYNNE DYER Two questions about recent events in Kazakhstan. First, was last week’s slaughterhouse battle between “20,000 bandits” and the regime’s police in Almaty, the country’s biggest city, really just a quarrel among thieves? And second, why did Russian troops get involved? Kazakhstan is a kleptocracy: “a state where corrupt
2 October 2021 Destroy the Whistle-Blowers! By Gwynne Dyer A long time ago now I was asked to do a television series about the world’s intelligence services – and I turned it down flat. My main reason was a feeling that there was less to the whole intelligence world than met the eye, and the
27 January 2021 They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence programme in Prague this month, to mark the invention of robots (or at least the idea of robots) in the same city exactly one hundred years ago. Covid-19 got in the way of that, and it will now only
Assange: (Almost) Free at Last! On Monday morning, a British judge finally rejected the US attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and jail him forever (or at least for 175 years in a high-security ‘supermax’ prison) on the grounds that he is, as Joe Biden once called him, a “high-tech terrorist”. The vindictiveness of