Editorials

Good luck running a small business in Norway

Norway used to be an independent nation built on honesty, hard work and private initiative. The state supported business, and taxes funded welfare for the Norwegian working class so no one had to beg. Now Norway has been turned into an EU colony. The state dominates business, the country is built on hypocrisy, regulation and public initiatives, tax money is handed out worldwide, and beggars are back on the streets.

Norway’s Constitution Day is the finest day of the year — but woke media activism just has to run its course

NRK gives us beautiful, whitewashed portrayals of Islamic holidays while dishonouring the Men of Eidsvoll who signed the Constitution. Aftenposten urges us to fight “hate speech” on 17 May, with Gaute Skjervø presented as the face of what it calls a defeat for Norway. VG offers a lecture on far-right forces, racism, and the claim that being Norwegian has nothing to do with where your parents were born.

The road to freedom is not safe

Security in every sense may, both in the short and long term, come at a price never mentioned in any political programme. On Constitution Day, 17 May, we should not lose sight of the fact that what the people’s elected representatives did at Eidsvoll in 1814 was not to ask for greater security, but rather to constitutionalise the right to independence and freedom.

Constitution Day: Norway’s national hymn – ‘God bless our dear Fatherland’

In the second half of the 19th century, nation-building began as a shared project. The patriotic hymns of the era express gratitude to God for the land and to those who fought for it. More priests joined the Liberal Party and the fight for union dissolution with Sweden. Norwegians came to view themselves as a people with a God-given history and mission.

The man who owes the bank five million doesn’t revolt — He goes to work

The home was meant to be a family’s sanctuary. Instead, it has become the collateral for the entire social model. The bank gets the interest. The state gets the taxes. The municipality gets the fees. The real estate agent gets the commission. And families are told they are lucky to own something that keeps rising in value. But the question is simple: If the home makes us so rich, why do we have to borrow more and more just to live in it?

Climate policy bites organizations with adopted climate targets

When Governor Støre presented the revised budget, it emerged that from 2029 new “climate requirements” will hit operators and shipping on Norway’s shelf. The government pushes battery ships plus deadly hydrogen and ammonia, though none exist and all trials bring huge problems, costs and dangers. CO2 cuts matter only to stupid politicians who enacted them.

Even the sexual assaults are turned into a weapon against Israel

At the same time as Israel’s Civil Commission released its 300-page report on the sexual brutality of October 7, Nicholas Kristof published a story accusing Israelis of sexually abusing Palestinian prisoners — based on just 14 interviews. Israel’s report, based on 430 interviews and years of work, was largely ignored. Kristof’s claims, however, received widespread attention.

Norway’s dangerous complacency: “At least we’re better off than Chad”

The Norwegian state has taken on so many permanent obligations, transfers, subsidized schemes, bureaucratic layers and public ambitions that the economy can no longer function normally. The state spends, hires, regulates, subsidizes, compensates and redistributes — and when prices rise, it pretends inflation is a meteorological phenomenon.

Norway’s man-made energy disaster: Cheap power is over – crisis expected in two weeks

The power system we have was painstakingly built up with hydropower reservoirs to ensure enough electricity during dry periods. Now it has become more weather-dependent than ever before. And this is entirely man-made. What could have been security of supply today was exported last year. Norway’s net power exports reached a record 22.8 TWh — and this was a deliberate choice, fully in line with EEA rules and ACER.

Norwegian government visits the butchers in Tehran

While screams echo from Iranian torture chambers, the government is sending State Secretary Andreas Kravik to Iran for cosy talks with the executioners. How can anyone schmooze with merciless killing machines without vomiting?