Editorials

Netflix series ‘Blood Sacrifice’: Swedes have become extras in their own country

All cultures are to be allowed to retain their distinct character, except Scandinavians. In the Netflix series ‘Blood Sacrifice’, it is difficult to recognise anything Swedish. ‘What is truly Scandinavian?’ asked the controversial SAS advert. And as I watched this Swedish crime series almost devoid of typical Swedes, one song kept running through my head: ‘Lyckliga gatan finns inte mer.’ (‘Happy Street is there no more.’)

Diversity festival: The New Norway takes over Trondheim

Trønders, and indeed Europeans in general, were few and far between when a festival celebrating diversity was held in Trondheim on Saturday. Cultures from around the world were to be celebrated, and tucked away in a small corner we even found a little stall for Norway. Perhaps what we witnessed in Trondheim on Saturday was a glimpse of the future.

Heavyweight of French journalism bids farewell to the Left

After 42 years as a journalist at Libération, the house organ of the French left, Jean Quatremer is calling it a day. He can no longer stomach a left that wallows in antisemitism and wants freedom only for itself. The woke and Islamo-left behave like fascists – and that is what they are, Quatremer concludes in a public farewell letter.

VG and TV 2 blunder: Trump ridiculed over false claims about lower drug prices

TV 2 and VG portray Trump’s statements on lower drug prices as a colossal blunder and claim that Biden deserves all the credit. Left-leaning AP’s review tells a very different story, while media watchdog AllSides tears apart TV 2’s framing, finding that Trump is ridiculed from the headline onwards through loaded language and one-sided sourcing. And this was a news article, not an opinion piece.

Islam in the West: 25 predictions

how many words is this: In one of the latest videos Iranian-born Ali Tabrizi has posted on his YouTube channel, he advances 25 predictions about Islam’s further advance in the West. It is not cheerful reading, but necessary shock therapy for a Western population that is still slumbering. What Tabrizi forecasts ought not to come as any surprise; it is based on empiricism from 1,400 years of Islam, current religious practice in Muslim countries and tendencies that are already making themselves felt in the West.

Secret meetings at a cost of USD 75 million to taxpayers

NOREF, the Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution, is an independent, government-appointed foundation with a secret agenda. For 18 years, it has arranged secret meetings with Hamas and Fatah, among others. It receives NOK 64 million annually from the development aid budget and has cost taxpayers NOK 716 million since 2008. Last year, salary costs for its 29 employees reached almost NOK 39 million. The Foreign Ministry provides no answers.

Social Democracy is sawing off the branch it sits on

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 economy. Norway is drifting towards an ever-larger state, ever-weaker incentives to work and create, and an increasingly politicised distribution of increasingly vulnerable prosperity. It cannot end well!

Gaute Skjervø’s democratic problem

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 of power, authorities and society’s established gatekeepers. The labour press arose precisely because the established public sphere did not represent everyone. Imagine if the political and economic elite of the time had replied: Why is the Labour newspaper Arbeiderbladet allowed to pass itself off as journalism?

Should defence lawyers decide which media may cover court proceedings?

Document became the focus when lawyer Mette Yvonne Larsen objected to our presence at a trial in Hamar concerning a school fire in Løten. Larsen launched a frontal attack, citing rulings against us by the Norwegian Press Complaints Commission (PFU) and assuming that we would not respect the reporting restrictions. Other media present, however, protested against the attempt to exclude Document.

Incredible statements from Conservative deputy leader

Ola Svenneby said on Politisk kvarter that it is permissible to say that one would like to see a bullet through Gaute Skjervø’s head. He also cited comments saying that one bullet might not be enough, because it would encounter so much fat and ‘wood’. At the same time, he reproached Jon Helgheim for not taking the threats against Skjervø seriously enough.