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Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey tones down the brutality of antiquity, particularly the satisfaction of revenge. Odysseus is given a conscience that was alien…
Migration is driven by poverty, we are constantly told. The Pope repeats it all the time. But it is not true. Morocco is among…
It is of course legitimate to commemorate a popular king. It is quite another matter when the state broadcaster and the media machine use…
Decades of struggle for women’s rights and equality are thrown out of the window to please the most misogynistic group of men in the…
The Dutch insurance company Univé has decided that it will no longer insure a number of Chinese car brands. The decision is not based…
It is not men who have been radicalised, but women. As a group, though not all of them, they have moved far to the…
Sumaya Jirde Ali’s father runs the mosque seeking to build a 12.5-metre-high minaret in Bodø. Abdi Jirde Ali tells Document it will never be…
109 years after the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd and carried out the Russian Revolution, socialists in the United States are attempting…
For the left, Tamima Nibras Juhar’s murder is proof that far-right extremism is one of Norway’s greatest threats. Yet the circumstances surrounding the murder…
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…
Turkish Ismail Cüneyt Güzey from the ‘Bryggemoskeen’ mosque, Det Muslimske Samfunnet in Trondheim, was among various religious leaders who lit candles at the national…
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…
Modern Norwegian kings have had very limited powers, but King Harald used what room for manoeuvre he had by making clear that he wanted…
In Trondheim, one can say without consequence that the Hamas massacres of 7 October 2023 were the most beautiful thing that has happened, but…
King Harald V has died at the age of 89. He was a dutiful king, a warm and humorous man, and a unifying head…
A recent report has revealed that child welfare services in Buskerud, Vestfold and Telemark have been infiltrated by criminal networks. Police believe this is…