Editorials

So far left it breaks the meter: Norwegian commentary shocks bias watchdog

Everyone has biases — and that’s fine, says AllSides. No news coverage is completely impartial. Yet hidden media bias misleads, manipulates, and divides people. Norwegian media regularly does exactly this in its US coverage, fuelling growing hostility toward America and Americans — seen online, at parties, in offices, and around dinner tables.

Morgan Freeman has a lesson on racism for Norwegian activist Sumaya Jirde Ali

At just 17 years old, the Somali immigrant was given a platform to voice her views on a snow-white Norway that she considered unfair and nauseating. Since then, she has used her voice to condemn almost everything we stand for, both as a people and as a nation. Following the brutal assault in Bergen, she once again appropriates the story and turns it into her own self-fulfilling prophecy of racism directed at herself and her people.

Labour party-linked data centre secures NOK 2.2 billion state loan

Climate policy has made the mixing of public and private money the new normal. At the same time, political heavyweights keep being appointed to the green industry sector while more and more power-guzzling projects are approved. This madness is destabilizing the electricity supply — and Northern Norway is being hit the hardest.

Somalis are Norway’s most violent minority

The most violent category of residents in Norway is Norwegian-born men aged 15–24 with parents from Somalia. The rate of violence in this group is nine times higher than for peers without an immigrant background. In second place come descendants of Moroccans, followed by immigrants from Somalia. These groups increase the use of tax-funded services such as police and prosecution, which amounts to 31.9 billion kroner this year.

Large mosque with minaret cleared for construction near Oslo

Muslims have received the green light to build a grand mosque in Ski in Nordre Follo. Muslimsk Kultursenter Ski has around 1,000 members, and they paid 10 million kroner for the plot, while the building itself will cost around 60 million. It will be a mosque capable of accommodating 700 people, with prayer rooms for men and women, a Qur’an school, a café, and a minaret up to 15 metres high. The latter is commonly used for the call to prayer.

Swedish media: For the Sake of Democracy — or Social Democracy?

While Dagens Nyheter claims to open its website for free “for the sake of democracy”, young voters are instead served a carefully curated universe of emotional journalism, left-leaning narratives, and political agenda-setting. The question is no longer whether the media influences public opinion — but how openly it does so.

Is Norway still a constitutional state governed by law?

The daily news is confusing. We see responsible citizens dragged into court, convicted, and punished for minor offenses, while perpetrators of extreme violence go free and even receive protection from the authorities. What has happened to the image we grew up with — of Norway as one of the world’s best, safest, and most just countries, where “Uncle Police” never lets us down and always comes to our aid when needed?

Why do some Norwegians despise their own people?

“‘Why do some Norwegians hate their own people?’ was the original headline, but I realized that ‘hate’ is a strong word that should be used with caution. Nevertheless, I actually can’t come up with a better alternative when I see what is unfolding in my homeland on the other side of the Atlantic.”

The housing market is pricing away the next generation

Children are not born into spreadsheets. They are born into a home. They need a room, a bed, a nursery place, a safe everyday life, parents with time, and an economy that can withstand life not always going according to plan. When housing takes an ever larger share of income, it therefore does not only take money. It takes time, security, the future, and family plans. In the end, it also takes the child that is never born. This is not poetry. It is economics.

The Labour Party’s abuse of power against individuals is nothing new

These days, many of us are deeply shaken by the way Lillian Gran and her children are being treated by the apparatus of power. On that occasion, I would like to tell a story that lies very far back in time, but which illustrates that abuses of power against individuals are nothing new when it comes to the Labour Party.