Author
Øystein Steiro Sr.
The privatisation of foreign policy began in the 1980s and had its origins in a small circle centred on the Labour Party, the trade…
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,…
When competition disappears, price ceases to be information. It becomes a levy that established businesses can collect. Profit ceases to be a reward for…
When Document and Rustad strike a chord with an audience that does not recognise itself in NRK, VG and Aftenposten, the legacy media’s response…
It is of course legitimate to commemorate a popular king. It is quite another matter when the state broadcaster and the media machine use…
As the war in Ukraine threatens to escalate further, the world’s largest subsea gas pipeline network, which supplies Europe with Norwegian gas, lies virtually…
The left’s radical redistribution, Labour’s expansionary fiscal policy, the parliamentary parties’ mindless globalisation policies and immigration form a toxic mixture that is destroying Norway’s…
The entire spectacle at Arendal, Norway’s PC conference – the self-congratulatory platitudes, the endless panels on ‘diverse communities’, ‘green transition’, ‘inclusive working life’, ‘sustainable…
What Statistics Norway (SSB), state broadcaster NRK, and the Child Welfare Services (Bufdir) are engaged in is Newspeak! It is Newspeak designed to control…
The Norwegian state controls most of the economy and, through NRK, much of public opinion. Non-Western immigration is portrayed positively while its darker aspects…
The peculiarly Norwegian, hybrid privatisation of many enterprises through the 1990s, where the state retained control, combines the worst of two worlds. The result…
This is a text on a theme I have long been pondering. It is a difficult but important theme that tells us something essential…
Persistent immigration, the large numbers outside the labour market, and the extensive use of social welfare benefits in Norway together represent an annual socio-economic…
The gap between politicians and ordinary people continues to widen. Politicians buy votes by taxing productive citizens ever more heavily in order to finance…
Former Chief of Defence Sverre Diesen, who helped decimate Norway’s Armed Forces, points to the United States and Trump as a security problem and…
Much is said in Norway’s Foreign Ministry about a rules-based world order and the virtues of international law. Yet little is mentioned about the…