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AfD’s ‘demographic turnaround’ for Germany: Boost the birth rate, not immigration

AfD is mobilising against Germany’s declining birth rate. Family policy is to encourage more children among the native population: ‘Otherwise, the future of the German people is threatened.’

Editorials

Norway’s largest newspapers and the press code: Do as we say, not as we do

Tove Elisabeth Rooney

During a debate this week on Norway’s state broadcaster over Document’s editor, the witch-hunt against Hans Rustad and Document unfolded in real time, and the hypocrisy was palpable. We examine VG editor-in-chief Gard Steiro’s accusation that Rustad has neither the ability nor the willingness to follow the Norwegian press code – and VG’s own journalism, which itself seriously breaches several provisions of that same code.

Opinion

Trump and Netanyahu are trying to prevent a takeover of Western civilisation

Majid Rafizadeh

What Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have done is not merely to combat terrorist groups. They have prevented these groups from achieving their main objective: taking over Western civilisation. Without serious resistance, the same gradual process that transformed Iran into a hell could take hold in Western democracies.

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Do we protect our ‘vulnerable children’?

Yngve Nedrebø

Abusers are normally extremely adept at finding and manipulating vulnerable children. Children who have been in public care often appear subdued; they are not accustomed to being seen, and they…

Opinion

The Greenland agreement is predictable realism in an era of great-power rivalry

Kasper Støvring

The Greenland agreement is a solution – as in all great-power politics, a temporary solution – to three geopolitical conflicts that have intensified in our time and will outlast Trump.…

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Germany: SPD leader calls for a ban on the AfD

Christian Skaug

Lars Klingbeil, one of the leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Deputy Minister-President in Friedrich Merz’s government, is calling for consideration to be given to initiating proceedings to…

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Integration minister wants immigrant women in work – the figures show why it is not so simple

John Martin Johansen

Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion Kjersti Stenseng (Labour Party) wants immigrant women to learn Norwegian while they work. The message from the government’s new integration strategy is optimistic. The…

News Brief

EU faces energy crisis

Hans Rustad

The EU itself says it is facing an energy crisis and is asking member states to limit consumption. The EU blames the Iran war, but has itself taken several steps…

Editorials

Trump saves Greenland

Per Antonsen

We find nothing in the agreement that confirms or indicates that the accusations of abuse of power by the United States have any basis in fact. The agreement is very…

News

Lesbian bar relaxes mask rule – receives firebomb threat

Espen Teigen

A lesbian bar in Massachusetts sought to rescue its finances by making masks optional on Saturdays. The move prompted accusations of discrimination and eugenics. Even the bar’s apology drew criticism.

Sports

Manchester City found guilty of 114 of 115 charges

Erling Marthinsen

Manchester City have been under investigation for years over breaches of Premier League rules. They have now been found guilty on 114 of 115 charges. The punishment will be decided…

Editorials

Who gets to define the truth?

Hans Rustad

The meeting of the Norwegian Editors’ Association is under way as I walk up into the woods. But today this is about far more than Hans Rustad and Document: It…

From the hip

Where is the common sense?

Hans Rustad

PFU rulings are pouring in. At the same time, a newspaper has been found in breach for publishing a text by Anne Kalvig about sex and trans issues, and during…

Culture

The dilemmas and timeless emptiness of contemporary art

Paul Grøtvedt

The concept of contemporary art has long been a fashionable designation for influential art. Although the present never remains still, but constantly shifts forwards, the use of the term, if…

News

Half of Danes say no to armed resistance in event of invasion

Merete Skar

Only 34 per cent of Danes believe they would be prepared for armed combat if the country were invaded, a Megafon poll shows. Half say no. Former Defence Minister Hans…

The board

Why we published Anne Kalvig’s ‘forbidden opinion piece’: ‘Hurrah for brave Conservative women!’

Hans Rustad

The PFU believed the opinion piece should not have been published. We nevertheless chose to make it available – together with the PFU’s criticism and the contributions from the other…

Editorials

The truth about the Norwegian political class’s sheltered life of luxury

Gunnar Arne Larsen

While the poverty trap hits ordinary people in Norway, the political privileged class has eliminated its own housing costs, electricity bills and travel expenses, transforming its million-krone salaries into luxury.…

Opinion

The Green Collapse 51: Giant solar-power bankruptcy in Germany

Kent Andersen

The German company Enerparc is among Europe’s largest solar-power companies. It has now filed for insolvency. The excuse given is that ‘renewables’ are being developed faster than the electricity grid.…

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Norway’s ex-Oil Minister: the EU is a union for ‘suicide candidates’

Erling Marthinsen

The Centre Party has long been Norway’s most outspoken opponent of EU membership, and former Centre Party minister Ola Borten Moe is following in the footsteps of Anne Enger Lahnstein,…

News

Norway PM sends greetings from Mamdani and Palestine

Bente Haarstad

‘Norway increases support for Palestine by NOK 125 million. In 2026, Norway is providing around NOK 1 billion in aid to Palestine.’ And ‘Hi, Norway’, from New York City Mayor…

Sports

Norway beat Denmark for the first time in 26 years

Erling Marthinsen

Norway played their first home match against Denmark in the incomprehensible concept that is the Nations League. It was a fairly even contest, but Norway managed to take revenge for…

Guest writer

The forbidden opinion piece: Hurrah for brave Conservative women!

Anne Kalvig

Two female politicians from the Conservative Party have criticised Norwegian legislation and women’s lack of legal protection as a result of gender-identity ideology. Religious studies scholar Anne Kalvig believes what…

Opinion

Sixty thousand Greenlanders are now recognised as Denmark’s political equals

Lars Hedegaard

No one can know whether there are secret supplementary agreements to the agreement signed on Monday by the United States, the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland. We can only take…

News

Owner of child welfare institution recruited youths to carry out aggravated theft

Eirik Værnes

Child welfare entrepreneur Daniel Thomassen (35) recruited youths to carry out an aggravated theft of jewellery and watches for him. The boys had to be ‘tough little bastards’, he wrote…

Opinion

‘Fear is my weapon’

Ottar Jakobsen

Why does a large pack of Norwegian media outlets want to cast Document and Hans Rustad out into the cold? Because the pack fears Document, which rightly points out that…

News

Transport Minister without a driving licence wants to cut air routes in the north

John Martin Johansen

The government is considering cuts to state-subsidised air routes in Northern Norway. Norway has a sovereign wealth fund that recently passed NOK 20,000 billion. The decision rests with Transport Minister…

The board

Dagsavisen wants Hans Rustad expelled from the Norwegian Editors’ Association

John Martin Johansen

Expel him, and the Norwegian Editors’ Association will be left without a single dissenting voice. A guild without a single critic is not a professional community. It then becomes an…

Editorials

An insider’s account of what happened in 1981

Øystein Steiro Sr.

Nothing is accidental. The puzzle pieces are falling into place. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway’s first female prime minister, known as ‘Gro’ among Labour supporters, began much that later went seriously…

Editorials

When the truth-seeking press did not like the truth

Kjell Erik Eilertsen

The truth-seeking press is appalled by the AfD’s gains in Germany’s state elections. But no one has explained to their readers and listeners what is behind those gains. Thus, the…

Opinion

Morgenbladet editor: Document fails the Norwegian press code from its very first principle

Tove Elisabeth Rooney

The culture editor of the far-left ‘intellectual’ newspaper Morgenbladet argues that Document cannot be regarded as an editor-controlled medium because fundamental principles such as verification of information, right of reply,…

News

Found in breach over trans opinion piece: ‘A betrayal of the public’

Espen Teigen

Anne Kalvig calls the PFU ruling against RA Stavanger censorship. ‘This is completely dystopian,’ the former professor tells Document.

News

Two Left Party politicians linked to suspected electoral fraud in Sweden

Bente Haarstad

Another Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) politician of Somali background figures in the investigation into electoral fraud in Sweden. Both Mohamed Abdukardir Ali and Ahmed Abas Omar have now taken a break…

News Brief

Confident Rubio wields powerful dual role

Hans Rustad

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has formally been appointed Trump’s National Security Advisor in addition to his role as Secretary of State. It is a powerful dual role. Rubio has…

Editorials

From ‘The state, it is I’ to ‘Democracy is us!’

Kent Andersen

If one is appalled that someone has a different view of reality from one’s own, that should arouse curiosity in democratic people, not bullying, hatred, harassment, indignation, ostracism and crucifixion.…

News

Tabloid attacks Document: ‘Like an arsonist joining the Norwegian Fire Protection Association’

Espen Teigen

VG editor-in-chief Gard Steiro went for Hans Rustad’s throat, arguing that if the Document editor did not understand the limitations that come with being a member of the Norwegian Editors’…

News Brief

Quits Editors’ Association over handling of case and resignations

Hans Rustad

There are now also resignations from the Norwegian Editors’ Association in protest against those leaving the association because of Document’s membership. The association is splitting at both ends. Alexander Jansen,…

Editorials

The paradoxical Norwegian model

Øystein Steiro Sr.

When competition disappears, price ceases to be information. It becomes a levy that established businesses can collect. Profit ceases to be a reward for risk and effort and becomes a…

News

Withheld footage of Israeli hostages being abused – nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Liberal Party politician

Tove Elisabeth Rooney

Photographer Motaz Azaiza revealed that he withheld footage of Israeli hostages being beaten and abused by a Palestinian crowd on 7 October 2023. He did not want to ruin the…

Opinion

Sweden could face election re-run amid suspected electoral fraud

Bente Haarstad

Personal votes propelled the little-known Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) politician Mohamed Abdukardir Ali, 30, straight into the Riksdag. Two years ago, he was denied Swedish citizenship. The National Anti-Corruption Unit is…

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