Editorials

Half a million elected officials in America – Yet politicians and diplomats have eyes only for Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani smiles just as warmly and broadly alongside the notorious, terror-accused and openly anti-gay Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj as he does with Oslo Mayor Anne Lindboe and Norway’s Consul General, Jo Sletbak. Some will argue that this is merely routine diplomacy and World Cup camaraderie. But if so, why have they chosen to place only America’s most radical politician on a pedestal? Perhaps the answer lies precisely there: he is not so far removed from elements of Norwegian politics and the political left with close ties to Islam and radical socialism.

When “far-right” becomes another word for disobedient

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 description of the slain conservative politician Anne Widdecombe as a “far-right politician”. Widdecombe left the Conservative Party for Reform, which the established media detest and therefore label “far right”. Anyone familiar with Anne Widdecombe knows that this is a malicious falsehood. It comes close to desecrating the dead.

Zelensky seeks to erect a monument to Bandera

Ukrainian versus Polish nationalism: the Ukrainian variety has considerably more skeletons in the cupboard. As those skeletons come tumbling out and Zelensky insists that no one should criticise a man they hail as a hero, but whom the history books describe as a mass murderer, it is not only Zelensky who has a problem. Western leaders have climbed into bed with a right-wing nationalist of the very kind they otherwise brand as extremists and exclude.

Whoever does not love has never known God, for God is love

Love is not merely an attribute God possesses, but something that characterises God’s own life. Love is relational. It gives itself to another and lives in mutual fellowship.

The morning after

Noe skjedde under fotball-VM. Med folk, med nasjonen, som rørte på seg etter å ha vært som en utflytende masse i lang tid. Under VM var det plutselig lov å være nordmann igjen. Det er politisk uspiselig å si det, men vi ser hva vi ser: Selv ikke portvokterne dristet seg til å gripe inn overfor en sterkt nasjonal bevegelse som omfattet hundretusener.

Norwegians were blond and blue-eyed 4000 years ago

Four thousand years ago, a 25-year-old man died on the island of Hitra on the Trøndelag coast. Researchers at the NTNU University Museum have recreated the man, based on the skeletal remains that were found 110 years ago, in 1916. The blond, blue-eyed «Hitra Man» is also based on DNA analyses of a number of other individuals from the same period, with the same DNA composition.

Murder of beloved Ann Widdecombe shocks Britain

Ann Widdecombe was not well known outside Britain, but there the beloved politician was what one calls a «national treasure». That she has been killed is deeply shocking to everyone.

Germany: Fascism is back – this time as Antifascism

A master craftsman, father of young children with national-conservative sympathies and local politician for the AfD, experienced in the night of 5 November 2024 the ultimate nightmare in what is assumed to be a free, democratic society. His home was stormed by armed police. Powerful searchlights pierced through the windows, red laser dots from weapon sights danced across his chest. Outside something resembling explosions could be heard.

The Norwegian state is long overdue for a general clean-up

The peculiarly Norwegian, hybrid privatisation of many enterprises through the 1990s, where the state retained control, combines the worst of two worlds. The result was more expensive and poorer services and corruption at the expense of the common good. This undermines the development of the economy and prosperity in Norway, while people with the right network connections profit grossly. The time is long overdue for a general clean-up, but the politicians will resist.

EV road trips remain a headache

Norway is the only country in the world where the sale of petrol, diesel and hybrid cars has been eliminated by planned-economy tax policy. This means that all new cars sold are battery electric, and according to the activists this is completely unproblematic: Battery cars are simply better than combustion engine cars, and both range anxiety and loss of value are fictitious problems from the past – according to the comment sections on social media. Yet occasionally facts slip through the climate propaganda.