Author
Sten Branderne
If the homebuyer can pay a maximum of six million kroner (about $750,000) for a new home, it matters little that the cost of…
The Worker’s Youth Wing (AUF) belongs to a political tradition that readily tells the story of the labour movement as the struggle against concentration…
The Norwegian Media Authority has expressed concern about people who find themselves outside a ‘common public sphere’, and links disengagement from editor-controlled media to…
The people cast their votes from below, but the governing comes from above. The political theatre depends on the audience remaining seated. NRK can…
The culture of goodness judges policies by intentions rather than consequences. It rewards moral self-image while shifting costs onto others, suppressing criticism through moral…
The moment the accused begins to argue that he does not belong to the “far right”, he has already conceded the accuser’s right to…
Among ten teams at the 1990 World Cup—Czechoslovakia, England, Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, the USA, West Germany and Yugoslavia—at least seven of 220…
In the summer of 1982, a fifteen-year-old boy stood on a ladder outside his grandmother’s house. A paint tin hung beside him, a scraper…
When legitimate concern is labelled right-wing extremism, one is not protecting democracy but the narrative of those in power. A recent example is NTB’s…
The state tells us to prepare for lean years, yet it has built homes with no room for emergency preparedness; when the potato cellar…
This is not merely about Document. It is not merely about Hans Rustad, the Norwegian Editors’ Association, or a letter from a communications adviser…
The West attempts to explain Hamas through conventional political categories. It speaks of occupation, blockade, desperation, poverty, asymmetry, and historical injustice. All of these…
When did it become progress that a child’s waking day is, in practice, spent with strangers, while time with parents is squeezed in between…
Those who come from a society where freedom has already been lost often see more clearly than those who are born into freedom and…
What happens when those who carry society finally discover that they are no longer carrying a civilisation, but an apparatus that lives off them?…
Norway likes to see itself as an egalitarian society: a country without deep class divisions, without a hereditary aristocracy, without closed doors. Here, hard…