Editorials

Starmer to Reparations grifters: “We spent more ending slavery than you made from it.”

Britain finally grows a spine: Keir Starmer tells reparations campaigners to get stuffed.
In a surprise statement released on Wednesday morning, Sir Keir delivered a blunt message to Barbados: “Sue us, and we’ll build a statue of William Wilberforce with your aid money.”

Green “value chains” without value

There is no “value chain” in climate policy—never, anywhere. It is all humbug. Yet the EU will force through circular economy, meaning the suspension of capitalism’s laws. Politicians decide what we need, not the market. Northern Lights JV DA, owned by Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies, will store CO₂ at extreme cost: £583 million for 1.5 million tonnes. Hundreds of such facilities are required. The madness is total.

Ramadan parties in schools – while saying Grace has been banned for 21 years!

In 2005, Norwegian schools banned the singing of the traditional Christian children’s hymn “O Thou Who Feedest the Little Bird”.
Twenty-one years later, school church services have been cancelled, while Ramadan and Eid are now actively celebrated throughout the entire public education system — including kindergartens.
A parent in the city of Kristiansand says the kindergarten crossed a line when their child came home wanting to “fast and celebrate Eid like the adults”. The local Pensioners’ Party believes Norway is forgetting its own identity and culture.

£9,300 for a week in Epstein-linked UN power couple’s luxury retreat – or stay for free?

Labour figures Terje Rød-Larsen and Mona Juul’s luxury “Pax Villa” on the Greek island of Paxos cost about NOK 20m to build and is now valued above NOK 35m. Renting it for a week costs NOK 120,000 ($12,300). The Finance Ministry denies ex-NATO chief Stoltenberg stayed there, though his wife did. The couple previously lived in Rød-Larsen and Juul’s Oslo apartment.

We are created in God’s image. Let us look at it from time to time

The historical Jesus teaches that it is costly to contend for what is true and right. The work is never finished and is bound up with suffering, death and betrayal: many will turn their backs if one stands against the apparatus of power. But we have not come into this world to leave it gently used. If we do so, we lose ourselves as well.

Iran pushes neighbours into the arms of the US and Israel

Iran’s attacks on its neighbors are pushing them straight into the arms of both the US and Israel. This achieves the exact opposite of what Iran wanted: instead of turning against America, the neighboring countries are moving closer to it.
NRK tries to portray the war as unpopular in the region, but that’s not true. Saudi Arabia recently allowed the US to use an airbase where American forces have not operated since the Gulf War.

Norway’s hidden gift to Putin: Billions to the ‘Axis of Evil’ while we ‘support’ Ukraine

Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Norway has doubled its aid to Vladimir Putin’s closest military and strategic allies. Never before have they received as much funding from Norway’s aid budget as under Jonas Gahr Støre and Espen Barth Eide.
While the Støre government strikes heroic poses for Ukraine in speeches, Norwegian money continues to flow into the pockets of Putin’s closest partners. Is this naivety, ideology — or outright hypocrisy? Norwegian taxpayers and voters deserve an answer.

Is the Labour Party evil?

There’s a clear thread running through the government’s crisis management that I think people are finally starting to notice: for the Labour Party, no crisis is serious enough to justify easing taxes and duties. The policy is plain: an already immensely wealthy state is set on draining the public of their savings and purchasing power.

Iran after the regime: without a plan, chaos awaits

After 47 years of a regime that has controlled every single institution in Iran, the decisive moment will not be when it falls – but what fills the vacuum afterwards. It is not enough to abolish a regime. A revolution must also be managed further, and a state must be sustained in its most vulnerable moment.

NRK asks its TV viewers to save the world

This year’s flagship Norwegian TV charity appeal on 18 October is for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). NRK viewers face extra pressure because its major donor USAID has been axed, leaving a huge hole that the Norwegian state will almost certainly have to fill. The funds will go to Gaza and other projects in the Middle East and Africa. NRC already receives the lion’s share of Norway’s aid budget. Secretary General Jan Egeland — who worked closely with Terje Rød-Larsen in the 1990s — has kept a notably low profile since the Epstein revelations.