Dennis Glover
Dennis Glover is a speechwriter who has worked for the Labor Party. His most recent book is Repeat: A Warning from History.
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
How a three-day invasion has surpassed World War One and threatens global catastrophe
More than 100 years later, the technology has changed, but there remain remarkable similarities between the First World War and the war in Ukraine. Once again hundreds of thousands of lives have wasted to move battle lines meagre distances and the world is at a tipping point.
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- Political leadership
We’re witnessing a hard right populist revolt. There’s a way Albanese can stop it turning ugly
Liberal leader Angus Taylor thought he had found the way to staunch the bleeding. He’s since discovered that fighting the hard right populists on their own territory is the path to disaster.
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- 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.
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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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