Dennis Glover
Dennis Glover is a speechwriter and author of the novel The Last Man in Europe, which tells the dramatic story of the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.
- Opinion
- Democracy
We are living through an utterly lamentable era of history
We now live in a more extreme, violent and savage world than a decade ago. Liberal democracy is being confronted with something quite evil. Wider global conflict is far from impossible.
- Dennis Glover
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- Opinion
- Bondi shooting
Our political dialogue has become too vicious, too absolute, and just too much
Our words have started turning into bullets. The sentences carelessly flung around by the holders of megaphones have started animating deluded racist gunmen.
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- Opinion
- World War II
Atomic bombs weren’t needed to end WWII. We’ve been misled for 80 years
The bombing of two Japanese cities is a reminder of how nations that begin conflicts as champions of the rules of war can end up justifying the mass killing of innocent civilians.
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- Opinion
- World War II
Lest we forget history. Has the next world war already begun?
It’s 80 years since the end of WWII. If we don’t remember how it began, we are doomed to relive it.
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- Opinion
- Right-wing extremism
Echoes of 1930s Europe grow ever louder. We ignore them at our peril
The far right is on the march again in Germany. The parallels with the rise of Hitler almost a century ago are everywhere.
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- Opinion
- Trump's America
Since Trump’s victory, we’ve avoided the F-word. We need to bring it back
The political madness that has been unrelenting since November all seems so new. But to the historian, it’s all so recognisable.
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- Opinion
- World elections
What the French election means for the future of Europe’s growing far-right movement
France’s newly created left-wing Coalition may have won the election, but if history shows us anything, it’s that the far right knows how to bide its time.
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Who was really to blame for the failure of Scott’s Antarctic expedition?
More than a century after Captain Robert Scott’s Antarctica expedition, the reasons for disastrous outcome are still fiercely debated by the explorer’s devotees.
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- Opinion
- World politics
What’s the difference between 1939 and 2023? Not enough
Exactly 100 years ago, the world set itself on a path to tyranny and war. This time, we can pull back from the abyss.
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- Opinion
- Political leadership
Simon Crean stuck to his guns on the Iraq War, and was proven right
During his brief time as opposition leader, Simon Crean put some steel back into the Labor Party’s spine.
- Dennis Glover