Editorials

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.

Aid: Brazilian socialists are costing Norway a fortune

When the left is in power in Brazil, Norwegian aid to Brazil skyrockets. When the conservatives take over, the aid plummets. Norad explains the Brazil aid by citing the need to preserve the rainforest. If you believe that, it looks like the rainforest is especially at risk and in need of a lot of aid precisely when the socialists are governing. With a conservative president in Brazil, Norwegian aid money has been channeled to the Maduro regime in Venezuela.

Tales of Everyday Madness from the Western Front

I hope I am wrong, but if I were to venture a guess as to what awaits us, it would be a mixture of green ideology and sharia, dominated by the Chinese economy.

Imam at formerly conservative seminary promotes terror-designated organisation

An imam employed at the former Menighetsfakultet ((seminary founded as a bastion of classical Christianity)), Zeshan Ullah Qureshi, promotes Islamic Relief—an organization linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and increasingly banned or stripped of funding in multiple countries. In Norway, Document confronted Islamic Relief over alleged terror sympathies back in 2020. In Sweden, the group was completely defunded in January 2026, after receiving more than one billion kroner from Swedish taxpayers over the past decade.

Crown Princess Mette-Marit put to the test

Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway faced a tough grilling in her NRK interview about her links to Jeffrey Epstein. She stumbled early—admitting she Googled him and the findings “didn’t look good”—but rallied, projecting royal poise. Crown Prince Haakon sealed it: “I can’t do this without her. To carry out the job—or project—she has to be at my side.” By the circumstances, she passed.

New curriculum list alarming: Children not to be taught about oil, Christianity or Islamist terror

Norway’s Directorate for Education and Training (Utdanningsdirektoratet) has released a draft content list for the social studies curriculum that critics call alarmingly activist. Aimed at young primary school children, it is accused of discouraging national pride in Norway while framing racism and the historical oppression of the indigenous Sami people as central elements of Norwegian culture.

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.