Editorials

The year we danced at funerals – a Nowruz for the history books

The Persian New Year is called Nowruz. And it means “a new day!” A celebration that has lived through history. It began long before religions and ideologies took hold. At the vernal equinox, when the light returns and nature awakens. For thousands of years, Iranians have gathered around this day. Through empires, invasions, and shifting […]

The quiet dismantling of trust and shared reality

What is lost in any cultural revolution is not, first and foremost, institutions, laws, or economic structures. It is something far more subtle — and far harder to rebuild. It is trust. It is continuity. It is the quiet certainty within a person that the world makes sense, and that this sense is shared by others.

China meddled in 2020 election — intel agencies kept it from Trump

China attempted to influence the 2020 US election, but when Trump won, the intelligence community did not want him to know about it. The prevailing view was that they despised Trump’s China policy and refused to give him any ammunition to support it. Justthenews.com has unearthed reports from the intelligence ombudsman that both reveal how negative attitudes towards Trump dictated the behaviour of the intelligence services towards him, and concealed the fact that China tried to interfere in the election.

Jürgen Habermas dies after the world he believed in was gone

Habermas built his philosophy around “constitutional patriotism”: post-Nazism, nations must ditch people, culture and history and bind themselves instead to constitutions, human rights and democratic rules. The cosmopolitan would replace the patriot; reason would defeat myth once and for all.
It failed before he did. Constitutional patriotism is a parasite that lives off the very pre-political loyalty it pretends to abolish. Habermas earned respect, but the world was never persuaded.

Elite cultural revolution wrecking democracy and Europe

Stalin did it. Hitler did it. Mao did it. Pol Pot did it. Kim Il Sung did it. Fidel Castro did it. Ayatollah Khomeini did it. Hugo Chávez did it. ISIS did it: reshaped society according to their own vision, to achieve something greater, better, purer, and more unifying. The exact same thing is being done by Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Ursula von der Leyen, Keir Starmer, and the rest of the elite when they use society as a playground to experiment their way toward a dream society in their own image.

Støre seeks to curb digging in the Epstein case

Norway’s parliament is set to approve the mandate for a high-stakes inquiry into the Epstein case, led by its Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs. PM Jonas Gahr Støre, however, has already voiced concern in an interview with NTB that the investigation could overreach, calling for clear limits. The intervention appears to be a thinly veiled attempt to shape the scope of the probe before it has even begun.

Gender imbalance: Female takeover in government communications

The Government’s Equality Shock: In the Ministries’ communications staff, 64% are women! While the government in 2025 launched its first national equality strategy aimed at improving gender balance in professions and leadership, women dominate the state’s information gatekeepers: 80 of 125 communications advisers are women (64%). In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are no men. Journalists often wait days for email replies. Only four ministries are evenly balanced; the rest are skewed. Irony within its own administration?

NOK 100 million in foreign aid channelled to Marxist activism

With slogans such as “Hands off Venezuela” and “Hands off Cuba”, and claims that capitalism undermines women’s rights, the organisation Latin America Groups has received around NOK 100 million from the aid budget. Nearly half of the money goes to political activism in Norway, clearly rooted on the left. The remainder is used for “solidarity brigades”, which involve travelling to Latin America, visiting social movements there, and taking part in agricultural work, voluntary labour projects, or other activities organised by the solidarity brigades.

The rift is visible

The faction meeting that the Nordic members of NATO and the Arctic Council held together with Canada in Oslo on 15 March was convened on the initiative of Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The entire initiative and the diplomatic process that follows from it bear the mark of the political megalomania that has become characteristic of Støre.

Tight budget, but aid spending still fuels activism

The foreign aid budget invariably expands when the Norwegian Labour Party is in government. In this way, taxpayers finance thousands of people across hundreds of organisations engaged in left-leaning activism. Since 1960, aid has cost NOK 1,500 billion in 2025-adjusted kroner—equivalent to NOK 268,000 per inhabitant. No tangible results from this spending are evident. Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg has signalled a tight budget, but he is unlikely to have the stomach to cut these funds, just as he will not touch the sickness-benefit scheme or disability benefits.